books about: confessor
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Confessor
On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ: Selected Writings from St. Maximus the Confessor (St. Vladimir's ...
Paul M. Blowers
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Robert Louis Wilken
St. Vladimir's Seminary Press
, 2004
Maximize Your Maximus Studies!
Great translation of the hero and confessor of the faith who defended the natures of Christ, wills of Christ and hypostatic union. Really he helped defend the core of the faith against those who taught that Jesus was not exactly like usand exactly of the nature of the ...
Cosmic Liturgy: The Universe According to Maximus the Confessor (Communio Books.)
Hans Urs von Balthasar
Ignatius Press
, 2003
The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handywork
"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. 3There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard." ...
El Confesor/ the Confessor
Daniel Silva
Booket
, 2006
King of the Confessors
Thomas Hoving
Ballantine Books
, 1982
Read and re-read!
I read this book when it came out many years ago and my copy has been read and re-read many times over the years. It's a great non fiction book about an ivory cross that the former director of the Met found and pursued and finally purchased, after many setbacks and ...
Confessor
Terry Goodkind
Harper Voyager
, 2007
The perfect conclusion
While the biggest complaint about this book has been that it contains (gasp!) philosophy (followed closely by the fact that it contains not just a protagonist, but a hero, though the charge that Richard is "perfect" is blatantly false, as are most of the other ...
Maximus the Confessor (Early Church Fathers)
Andrew Louth
Routledge
, 1996
A "most valuable" introduction to Maximus
I cannot in good conscience bypass one more time that one-starred, rather negative review by the reviewer from Holland of this actually excellent book on St. Maximus the Confessor by Andrew Louth, without attempting to redress what is basically a false impression of ...
Confessor (Sword of Truth)
Terry Goodkind
Tor Fantasy
, 2008
Hanging on every last word!
So of course all the other books in The Sword of Truth series I read in break-neck speed, I was excited and couldn't wait to read what was next, but not this one. I held on to every word, couldn't bare to turn the page because I knew it was drawing me closer to the ...
Maximus Confessor: Selected Writings (Classics of Western Spirituality)
Paulist Press
, 1985
Maximus to the maximum
I am an Orthodox Christian, and I have not only read this book, but as a Maximus scholar, I have lived with it for 15 years, since it first came out in 1985. My original copy is totally dogeared, held together with tape and glue and the grace of a book lovingly valued ...
Origen of Alexandria And St. Maximus the Confessor
Edward Moore
Dissertation.com
, 2005
A Genuinely Original Appreciation of Early Christianity -Four and a Half Stars
Throw out everything you think you know about early Christianity. For most of us moderns & postmoderns (especially if our understanding of Christianity derives from the Latin West, the Orthodox East is another matter) it is a dour, unimaginative and inhumane thing. In ...
The Confessor
Daniel Silva
Signet
, 2004
"Bring me the file on The Leopard."
(4.5 stars) The Leopard, an assassin who figures in a number of Silva novels, becomes a major player in this third Gabriel Allon novel, about the passive involvement of the Vatican in the Holocaust and its subsequent denial of all responsibility. Basing the novel on ...
Housecarl
Laurence J. Brown
Paul Mould Publishers
, 2002
Housecarl Is A Riveting Tale of 11th Century England!
This is another worthy story about Harold I & William of Normandy which will culminate into the Battle of Hastings, October 14, 1066. The characters are realistically portrayed, even the fictional ones, such as Ranulf Redbeard, personal champion and housecarl of King ...
A Confessor's Handbook
Kurt Stasiak
Paulist Press
, 2000
Help for the Confessing
Although written to help priests be more effective and gentle, helpful confessors by gaining a deeper understanding of what their people are saying (or trying to say or hide )in confession this book can also help laity confused about the sacramment of reconciliation. ...
Ruling England, 1042-1217
Richard Huscroft
Longman
, 2004
The Life Of St. Augustine: Bishop, Confessor And Doctor Of The Church (1873)
Patrick E. Moriarty
Kessinger Publishing, LLC
, 2007
The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor: Byzantine and Near Eastern History, AD 284-813
Theophanes the Confessor
Oxford University Press, USA
, 1997
Theophanes the Confessor (d.818) was a Byzantine abbot who fell victim to the Iconoclastic persecution. The Chronicle that goes under his name, written in Greek, is here translated in full for the first time, together with an introduction and commentary. It provides a unique source for the history of the Byzantine Empire to AD 813, as well as the ...
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