Product Description: The book of Job, an enigmatic but powerful book in the Old Testament canon, raises universal questions about suffering and God's relationship to both the cause of the anguish and those who endure it. The ideas and questions of theodicy, divine justice, and divine power that arise and challenge Job's life still resonate with our lives today...read more

Product Description: Rooted in the desire to communicate the richness and diversity of prayer, this innovative book considers various models of understanding within the Christian prayer tradition. Likening the life of prayer to a tree sown as seed by God in the human heart, Steven Chase suggests five models of prayer that are linked to the Tree of Life metaphor: prayer as conversation (deep roots), prayer as relationship (solid trunk), prayer as journey (branches), prayer as transformation (new leaves), and prayer as presence (flowers and fruits)...read more

Product Description: Victorine spirituality, which emerged from the Abbey of St. Victor in Paris, was one of the most creative, exciting, and productive traditions of the Middle Ages. With emphasis on contemplative prayer, the presence of God in all things, and loving compassion toward one s neighbors, the Victorine tradition has many parallels with present-day spirituality and holds promise for enriching and energizing contemporary spiritual formation...read more

A survey of medieval Christian literature dedicated to angels explores issues in angelic spirituality along a variety of themes and provides selections from medieval commentaries on such topics as theology, the moral life, and mystical consciousness. (view table of contents)

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In this graceful, deeply learned book Steven Chase takes readers on a  contemplative and theological journey into the angelic wisdom at the heart of the symbol of the cherubim. Providing the guiding hand for this journey is Richard of St. Victor whose twelfth century treatise on contemplation, De arca mystica, focuses on God's instructions to Moses on the construction of the ark and cherubim in Exodus 25: 18-20. The text from Exodus contains the promise of God to Moses, and finally to us, that atop the ark, between the two cherubim, God will meet with and speak to his people.   "Steven Chase has opened up in a new way the spiritual treasures of the twelfth century Abbey of St. Victor. Angelic Wisdom focuses on the climax of The Mystical Ark, the major text of Richard of St. Victor, who is one of the greatest—but often neglected—authorities on contemplation in the history of Christian spirituality. Chase bases his study on the bedrock of extensive historical research, but like Richard's own, his interpretation soars. With Richard he leads the reader into the symbolic meaning of the cherubim who hover over the ark and opens the way to a retrieval of medieval angelic spirituality, which he aptly calls 'angelization.'" —Ewert Cousins, Fordham University