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Product Description: What good is a church community if it lacks loving fellowship? In Rules for Walking in Fellowship, John Owen supplies struggling congregations with biblical guidelines for making church life in the present a foretaste of heavenly fellowship to come...read more

Product Description: When Christians first began living as monks in the Egyptian desert at the beginning of the fourth century, they had few books and almost no learning. As they gained experience, they concentrated that experience in the form of an oral tradition of tales and sayings (apophthegmata)...read more

Product Description: Among the earliest writings in Syriac literature is the collection of 30 mēmrē or discourses entitled the Book of Steps or Liber Graduum, most probably written in the late fourth century inside the Persian Empire (modern Iraq). The author, who deliberately withheld his name, wrote extensively on the spiritual life and exploits of two groups of committed Christians - the upright and the perfect - that flourished in a period prior to the development of monasticism...read more

Product Description: St. Cyril of Alexandria is best known for his role in the Christological controversies of the fifth century. In recent decades, scholars have been attending more carefully to his exegetical legacy. Most of Cyril's work takes the form of biblical commentary rather than doctrinal treatise...read more

Product Description: Described by Origen as a writing that even the masses of believers have read, the Sentences of Sextus offers unique insights into popular Christian thought during the late second century C.E. Although it draws extensively on canonical texts for the composition of its sayings, it is especially fascinating for the manner in which it integrates these texts with material derived from two generically similar collections of Pythagorean maxims...read more

The Book of the Perfect Life crystallized the mystical experience of the late Middle Ages, yet still speaks to seekers today. Martin Luther wrote of this 14th century devotional work that 'next to the Bible and St. Augustine, no other book has come to my attention from which I have learned-and desired to learn-more concerning God, Christ, man and what all things are.' Theologica Deutsch-the title this work has most commonly appeared under- has been through 190 editions in ten languages throughout its 600-year history. Now drawing on the latest German critical edition of the work, David Blamires brings us the definitive English translation of this classic mystical work, The Book of the Perfect Life.

Product Description: The Syriac Book of Steps collects 30 memre by an anonymous late 4th century author in Persia. It describes the struggle of a Christian community to live a life in the pursuit of perfection in the midst of a hostile culture.

Selections from the writings of John Calvin discuss the nature of prayer, the concept of Christian freedom, and the purpose of human life

Product Description: dark night of the Soul: may be too complex for some readers. Not all but some segment of humanity will experience before or after death, to some degree, the dark night of the soul. This experience, designed by God, is to elevate that soul to a higher level of perfection before entering Heaven...read more

Product Description: Offers for the first time in English, a translation of Finelon's (Frangois de Salignac de la Mothe-Finelon (1651-1715) major spiritual writing, the Maxims of the Saints and other seminal works of fiction and spiritual direction, such as the famous "Letter to Louis XIV."

Product Description: Offers for the first time in English, a translation of Finelon's (Frangois de Salignac de la Mothe-Finelon (1651-1715) major spiritual writing, the Maxims of the Saints and other seminal works of fiction and spiritual direction, such as the famous "Letter to Louis XIV."

Product Description: Type: Hardcover () Category: Books > Christian Living ISBN / UPC: 9781573581677/1573581674 Publish Date: 1/1/2005 Item No: 109900 Vendor: Soli Deo Gloria Publications / Reformation Heritag

Product Description: Martin Luther said that he owed more to the Theologia Germanica than to any other book, next to the Bible and the writings of Saint Augustine. Luther popularized this work by an unknown fourteenth-century German author who focuses on the "divine life," which is directed or guided by the "true light" of God...read more

Product Description: Intentionally anonymous and lacking concrete details of historical and cultural setting-and for many years suspected of messalianism-this collection of thirty memre [discourses] has been long recognized as an important, yet understudied, work of the fourth century Syriac Church...read more

Product Description: This spiritual classic has a history as fascinating as the book itself. The original text was first discovered in 1516 in a monastic library in Germany, and it has remained in circulation ever since. Written in the spiritual tradition of Thomas a Kempis's "Imitation of Christ and Brother Lawrence's "Practicing the Presence of God, it is for many people a treasured devotional work...read more

Product Description: Scripture is quite clear that "faith without works is dead." But faith, accompanied by works, is such an ornament and testimony to faith that, according to Paul, "adorns the doctrine of God in all things" (Titus 2:10). It is this text of Scripture that Vincent Alsop, a Puritan pastor, exposits in this treatise...read more

Product Description: In nine short books, this remarkable work by Teellinck shows believers the character of true godliness and the kingdom of darkness that opposes it. Dr. Joel R. Beeke, editor of the book, has included an introduction that chronicles Teellinck's life and times...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: As one modern pastor has noted, "The heart of the issue is the issue of the heart." That is, indeed, what Christ said. Our problem is that we not only have a bad record, but we also have a bad heart until God is pleased to change it...read more

Product Description: In this classic book, Christopher Love (a 17th century London preacher) presents practical insights for the Christian who wants to be zealous about fighting against sin. Violence is needed in dealing with sin, and Love focuses on how fervent prayer and hearing the Word are the best weapons with which we can exercise this "holy violence...read more