Athanasius: The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinus (Classics of Western Spirituality)

5 best books like Athanasius: The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinus (Classics of Western Spirituality) (Athanasius of Alexandria): Confessions, The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Cistercian studies 59), For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy, The Life of Moses, The Triads (Classics of Western Spirituality Series)

Confessions

Author	Augustine of Hippo
ISBN	0192833723

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century A.D. and during his first years as a bishop, they reflect on his life and on the activity of remembering and interpreting...

The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Cistercian studies 59)

Author	Benedicta Ward
ISBN	0879079592

`Give me a word, Father', visitors to early desert monks asked. The responses of these pioneer ascetics were remembered and in the fourth century written down in Coptic, Syriac, Greek, and later Latin. Their Sayings were collected, in this case in the alphabetical order of the monks and nuns who uttered...

For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy

Author	Alexander Schmemann
ISBN	0913836087

This is the best book on worldview I have ever read. Hands down. I come from a protestant background but most protestants argue for worldview in gnostic categories. Even the most creational of them merely reduce the Christian faith to the intellectual. This is the oldest heresy the church faced: gnosticism....

The Life of Moses

Author	Gregory of Nyssa
ISBN	0809121123

St. Gregory of Nyssa This great spiritual master of the fourth century was born as the general persecution of Christians was ending. One of the Greek Cappadocian Fathers (the other two were Gregory's brother, St. Basil the Great, and their mutual friend, St. Gregory Nazianzen), Gregory has come to...

The Triads (Classics of Western Spirituality Series)

Author	Gregory Palamas
ISBN	0809124475

Part 1: Philosophy does not save.

In this first chapter (and by chapter that is the division that Pelikan and Meyendorrf are using, and so I will use) Palamas critiques the Baarlamite notion that we have to know in order to be saved. Or more precisely and better put, we have to have a good grounding...