Bede's best known work, An Ecclesiastical History of the English People, was written in Latin and is not immediately easy to understand and follow. Yet it is a key text for any student of English history. Rowan Williams shows in his introduction how Bede works to create a sense of national destiny f[...]
Presents the ideal entry to the cosmic and mystical spirituality of one of the great mystical teachers of our time, a living bridge between Western Christianity and the spiritual wisdom of the East.[...]
The Venerable Bede composed On the Nature of Things (De natura rerum) and On Times (De temporibus) at the outset of his career, about AD 703. Bede fashioned himself as a teacher to his people and his age, and these two short works show him selecting, editing, and clarifying a mass of difficult and[...]
With an Introduction by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury 'Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your immediate feelings...' Adam Bede (1859), George El[...]
A story which evokes a bygone rural life, and is charged with a personal passion that intensifies the novel's outer dramas of seduction and betrayal and inner dramas of moral growth and redemption.[...]
The Venerable Bede's 'Ecclesiastical History of the English People' is considered to be one of the most important sources on Anglo-Saxon history, playing a key role in the development of an English national identity and establishing its author as 'The Father of English History'. Bede was a skilled l[...]
Experience God's presence in your soul. Fr. Jarrett helps you penetrate the great mystery of God's presence in our hearts. Learn how to listen for the soft voice of the Spirit calling from within, inviting you to know, love, and cooperate with Him in all things great and small.[...]
Meditations to banish spiritual lethargy and grow closer to God. These brief meditations will invigerate your desire to speak to God, not only during crises but also in the ordinary course of your day. This book will calm your soul, enrich your faith, and help you pray.[...]
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Complete Novels of George Eliot: Adam Bede + The Lifted Veil + The Mill on the Floss + Silas Marner + Romola + Brother Jacob + Felix Holt the Radical + Middlemarch + Daniel Deronda"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of c[...]
Fader Bede kom från trygg engelsk klostermiljö för att verka i Indien där han grundade sitt ashram. Bede Griffiths tolkning av kristendomen i indisk terminologi har gett ett väsentligt bidrag till dialogen mellan världsreligionerna. Hans "Äktenskapet mellan Öst och Väst" utkom på svenska 1[...]
Den kristna missionens möte med Indien har alltid varit en utmaning. I Banbrytare III får vi följa en engelsk och tre franska katolska missionärer vid mitten av 1900-talet och deras försök att bygga upp ett kristet klosterväsende, grundat på indisk tradition. Mötet tvingade dem att pröva s[...]