Scivias
10 best books like Scivias (Hildegard of Bingen): The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, Revelations of Divine Love, The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism, The Major Works, Selected Works, Catherine of Siena: The Dialogue (Classics of Western Spirituality), The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks, Bonaventure: The Soul's Journey into God, the Tree of Life, the Life of St. Francis (Classics of Western Spirituality), On the Apostolic Preaching, On the Unity of Christ
The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross
| Author | Juan de la Cruz |
| ISBN | 0935216146 |
The fourth centenary of the death of St. John of the Cross inspired this revised edition of the English translation of his writings. The result is an edition that preserves the true meaning of the great mystic's writings, presents them as clearly as possible, and at the same time gives the reader the doctrinal...
Revelations of Divine Love
| Author | Julian of Norwich |
| ISBN | 0140446737 |
One of the first woman authors, Julian of Norwich produced in Revelations of Divine Love a remarkable work of revelatory insight, that stands alongside The Cloud of Unknowing and Piers Plowman as a classic of Medieval religious literature
After fervently praying for a greater understanding...
The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism
| Author | Bernard McGinn |
| ISBN | 0812974212 |
This clear and comprehensive anthology, culled from the vast corpus of Christian mystical literature by the renowned theologian and historian Bernard McGinn, presents nearly one hundred selections, from the writings of Origen of Alexandria in the third century to the work of twentieth-century...
| Author | Anselm of Canterbury |
| ISBN | 0192825259 |
Although utterly convinced of the truth of Christianity, Anselm of Canterbury struggled to make sense of his religion. He considered the doctrines of faith an invitation to question, to think, and to learn; and he devoted his life to confronting and understanding the most elusive aspects of Christianity....
| Author | Bernard of Clairvaux |
| ISBN | 0809129175 |
Here in a new translation by G.R. Evans are the writings that have had such a major role in shaping the Western monastic tradition and influencing the development of Catholic mystical theology. Together with an introduction by the master of Bernard studies, jean Leclercq, they comprise a volume that...
Catherine of Siena: The Dialogue (Classics of Western Spirituality)
| Author | Catherine of Siena |
| ISBN | 0809122332 |
Second only to Divine Mercy in My Soul, this book had the greatest impact on my spiritual reformation.
This opening line, God speaking to St. Catherine, captured my heart and soul:
"Open the eye of your intellect, and gaze into Me, and you shall see the beauty of My rational creature."
It...
| Author | Benedicta Ward |
| ISBN | 0140447318 |
The Desert Fathers were the first Christian monks, living in solitude in the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. In contrast to the formalised and official theology of the "founding fathers" of the church, the Desert Fathers were ordinary Christians who chose to renounce the world and live lives...
| Author | Bonaventure |
| ISBN | 0809121212 |
This is how I imagine spiritual theology would be if it were written by an on-fire, meditative, deeply orthodox and copiously learned systematic theologian who was also a quantum physicist and complex mathematician who enjoyed contemplating the hypostatic union and the triune interrelationships,...
| Author | Irenaeus of Lyons |
| ISBN | 0881411744 |
St. Irenaeus, undisputedly the most important theologian of the second century, laid a firmer foundation for all future Christian thinkers. Both in his work, Against the Heresies and in this present study, Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching, St. Irenaeus explains that there is but one God,...
| Author | Cyril of Alexandria |
| ISBN | 0881411337 |
This text is one of the most important and yet approachable works produced by Cyril. It was written after the Council of Ephesus (431) to explain his doctrine to an international audience. Cyril argues for the single divine subjectivity of Christ, and describes how it encompasses a full and authentic...
| Author | Caroline Walker Bynum |
| ISBN | 0520063295 |
In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women gained widespread veneration and even canonization as saints for their extraordinary devotion to the Christian eucharist, supernatural multiplications of food and drink, and miracles of bodily manipulation, including...
| Author | Teresa of Ávila |
| ISBN | 0960087621 |
This is the second edition of Volume One of The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, first woman doctor of the church. The translators have taken full advantage of all that recent scholarship has contributed to a better understanding of Teresa and her writings. This volume includes her first major...
| Author | Basil the Great |
| ISBN | 0913836745 |
St Basil, much like St Gregory of Nazianzen, begins his work with a dense discussion of the terminology. It is easy for today's reader to miss what is important in the debate. St Basil spends the first few chapters sparring over the use of prepositions as they are applied to Father, Son, and Holy Spirit....
| Author | Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite |
There are few figures in the history of Western Spirituality who are more enigmatic than the fifth or sixth-century writer known as the Pseudo-Dionysius. The real identity of the person who chose to write under the pseudonym of Dionysius the Areopagite is unknown. Even the exact dates of his writings...
| Author | Pope Gregory I |
| ISBN | 0881413186 |
This manual for pastors by St Gregory the Great is very, very good. I regret that I didn't read it while I was in seminary because it would have had a significant impact on my training and formation.
This is the most influential ancient work written specifically for pastors regarding their preaching,...
| Author | Marguerite Porete |
| ISBN | 0809134276 |
I didn't think I would "like" this book, and thats really not why I read it. I read it because of one line in "World Without End" which referenced it. And yes, I am so neurotic, I had to read it just to "get" that one reference. Its translated to English, which doesn't mean I understood it. Not at all. Sometimes...
| Author | Francis of Assisi |
| ISBN | 0809124467 |
As it says in the title, this book contains all of the writings of these two saints; neither wrote that much (and at least some writings have not survived). Both had their own emphasis - Francis obedience and Holy Spirit and nature, Clare very stubbornly defended the poverty part - and said it beautifully....
| 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...
| Author | Origen |
| ISBN | 0844626856 |
s/t: Being Koetschau's Text of the De Principiis Translated into English Together with an Introduction & Notes
The Father
Christ
The Holy Spirit
Loss or falling away
Rational natures
The end or consummation
Things corporeal & incorporeal
The angels
The...
| Author | Karl Rahner |
| ISBN | 1890318221 |
One of the classics of modern spirituality, Encounters with Silence is one of Karl Rahner's most lucid and powerful books. A book of meditations about man's relation with God, it is not a work of dry theology, but rather a book of prayerful reflections on love, knowledge, and faith, obedience, everyday...
The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life
What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule?
It is to these questions that Agamben's new book turns by means of an impassioned reading of the fascinating...
| Author | Adomnán of Iona |
| ISBN | 0140444629 |
Founding father of the famous monastery on the island of Iona, a site of pilgrimage ever since his death in 597, St Columba was born into one of the ruling families in Ireland at a time of immense expansion for the Irish Church. This account of his life, written by Adomnán - the ninth abbot of Iona, and a distant...
Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man
| Author | Henri de Lubac |
| ISBN | 0898702038 |
Catholicism Christ and the Common Destiny of Manby Henri Cardinal de Lubac, S.J. This book first appeared just over fifty years ago. It is the pilgrimatic work of one of the 20th century's greatest theologians. Deeply rooted in tradition, it breaks ground and sows seeds which will bear their fruit in...
| Author | Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen |
| ISBN | 0895558173 |
Divine Intimacy is undoubtedly the classic Carmelite work on meditation---a book that helps one arrive at intimate union with God by the practice of considering holy truths. It is a book that shows how to join prayer and action and put the Catholic doctrine on the spiritual life into practice daily....
