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  • Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers
    Tim Vivian
    The Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers offers a new translation of the Greek alphabetical Apophthegmata Patrum, The Sayings of the Desert Fathers. For the first time in an English translation, this volume provides: extensive background and contextual notes significant variant readings in the alphabetical manuscripts and textual differences vis-à-vis the sys...
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    59,09 €

  • Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers
    Tim Vivian
    The Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers offers a new translation of the Greek alphabetical Apophthegmata Patrum, The Sayings of the Desert Fathers. For the first time in an English translation, this volume provides: extensive background and contextual notessignificant variant readings in the alphabetical manuscripts and textual differences vis-à-vis the system...
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    59,78 €

  • Poems Written in a Time of Plague
    Tim Vivian
    Plague is both metaphor and physical presence. The poems in this volume, written between January and June of 2020, address the plagues of COVID-19; racism, police brutality; and political indifference, ineptness, and malfeasance. The poems offer the hope that the first plague has taught us about the good fruits of compassion and community and that the continuing nonviolent prot...
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    17,72 €

  • Other Voices, Other Rooms
    Tim Vivian
    Why do we tell stories? Why are stories so indigenous to religion? Stories. Sacred stories. The three Western Scriptures express themselves most fully, and deeply, in stories. The original idea of ''story'' is ''inquiry,'' the ''result of research, information, knowledge,'' ''telling, exposition, account, history.'' Its verb makes verbal these nouns: ''to seek to know oneself, ...
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    15,05 €

  • Words to Live by
    Tim Vivian
    Give me a word, Father. From the time of Saint Antony-at least-younger monks would ask older, experienced monks, abbas or ammas (’fathers’ or ’mothers’), for a saving word, for advice, for wise counsel on how to live. In this book, Coptic scholar and priest Tim Vivian shares personal accounts of journeys to present-day monasteries in Egypt, and translations of ancient texts exe...
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    59,53 €

  • Histories of the Monks of Upper Egypt and the Life of Onnophrius (Rev)
    Paphnutius / Tim Vivian
    The desert stood in stark opposition to the oikoumene, the inhabited world of the fourth century. Not because the world was a bad place, but because the desert - understood geographically, religiously, spiritually, and mystically - was the harsh, uncomprising place where the Christian could be perfected by God. Far from the Christian metropolis of Alexandria, removed from the w...
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    36,04 €