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Chastity - Reconciliation of the Senses: Erik Varden Chastity - Reconciliation of the Senses
Erik Varden
R385 Discovery Miles 3 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The word 'chastity', at first sight, may seem intimidating, something to be dismissed out of hand. It is, however, something very different to celibacy. At a time when religion is in decline in the Western world and when it often seems that the senses have run riot, Erik Varden shows that chastity, the single minded direction of the senses, is a loveable quality and one that affects and beautifies humankind. The terms sexuality and wholeness indicate that to be sexual is to exist in a state of incompleteness longing to be restored. Wholeness points to a healing embrace that we desire so greatly. In Biblical language, chastity is a function of simplicity of sight. We are no longer torn apart by our passions and our desires, indeed they may reach their fulfilment. Body and spirit, male and female, order and disorder, passion and death can move from creative tension to a new kind of wholeness. Varden's text is enriched by a wide range of references to scripture, literature, music, painting and sculpture.

The Shattering of Loneliness - On Christian Remembrance (Paperback): Erik Varden The Shattering of Loneliness - On Christian Remembrance (Paperback)
Erik Varden 1
R398 R323 Discovery Miles 3 230 Save R75 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The experience of loneliness is as universal as hunger or thirst. Because it affects us more intimately, we are less inclined to speak of it. But who has not known its gnawing ache? The fear of loneliness causes anguish. It prompts reckless deeds. To this, every age has borne witness. No voice is more insidious than the one that whispers in our ear: `You are irredeemably alone, no light will pierce your darkness.' The fundamental statement of Christianity is to convict that voice of lying. The Christian condition unfolds within the certainty that ultimate reality, the source of all that is, is a personal reality of communion, no metaphysical abstraction. Men and women, made `in the image and likeness' of God, bear the mark of that original communion stamped on their being. When our souls and bodies cry out for Another, it is not a sign of sickness, but of health. A labour of potential joy is announced. We are reminded of what we have it in us to become. That our labour may be fruitful, Scripture repeatedly exhorts us to `remember'. The remembrance enjoined is partly introspective and existential, partly historical, for the God who took flesh to redeem our loneliness leaves traces in history. This book examines six facets of Christian remembrance, complementing biblical exegesis with readings from literature, ancient and modern. It aims to be an essay in theology. At the same time, it proposes a grounded reflection on what it means to be a human being.

Entering the Twofold Mystery - On Christian Conversion (Paperback): Erik Varden Entering the Twofold Mystery - On Christian Conversion (Paperback)
Erik Varden
R384 Discovery Miles 3 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Erik Varden published The Shattering of Loneliness in 2018. Now, with the world in the throes of uncertainty and turbulence, he helps us interpret the signs of the times, convinced that the perennial experience of monks and nuns has much to teach us. The principles of monasticism have become attractive to many, awakened as we are to the importance of integrity, the pursuit of peace, asceticism as a path to freedom, hospitality and contemplative seeing. After a deeply personal introduction, Varden invites us to consider what makes a monk. He then takes us on a pilgrimage through the Church's year, drawing on Scripture, tradition and literary and religious figures of our time. Varden lets the reader discover the generous breadth and depth of a monk's outlook on life. In so doing he provides inspiration, enjoyment and enlightenment in equal measure.

The Joy of God - Collected Writings (Paperback): Mary David The Joy of God - Collected Writings (Paperback)
Mary David; Foreword by Erik Varden; St Cecilias Abbey 1
R399 R323 Discovery Miles 3 230 Save R76 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Sister Mary David Totah was a nun of the Benedictine contemplative community of St Cecilia's Abbey on the Isle of Wight. American by birth, she was educated at Loyola University, the University of Virginia and Christ Church, Oxford. After a distinguished teaching career, she entered religious life in 1985. For 22 years until her early death from cancer she guided the young nuns of her abbey with enthusiasm, wisdom and wit.

The spirituality to be found in the pages of this book demonstrates to the reader why her influence should have been so great and so deep. Her notes to the novices deal with issues of relevance to a world beyond the cloister: What is the meaning of suffering? How do we cope with living with people who annoy us? How do we relate to a God we cannot see? How do we make the big decisions of life?

Sister Mary David's teaching was both profound and intensely practical, suffused with faith in God's joy in our work, leisure, community and family life but above all in our view and understanding of ourselves. This book, with an introduction by Abbot Erik Varden OCSO (author of The Shattering of Loneliness) shows us how to realize the Joy that is God.

The Song That I Am - On the Mystery of Music (Paperback): Elisabeth Paule Labat The Song That I Am - On the Mystery of Music (Paperback)
Elisabeth Paule Labat; Translated by Erik Varden
R750 Discovery Miles 7 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The Song That I Am: On the Mystery of Music "is a short but full-to-the-brim essay on the decisive role that great music (whether Bach, Tavener, or Gregorian chant) ought to play in the spiritual life. With admirable restraint elisabeth-Paule Labat shares her interior experience of music and thus continually opens up fresh vistas through worlds of sound and spirit. With her uncanny gift of language, Labat precisely describes soundings and yearnings of the soul that many of us glimpse fleetingly. Because "only the lover sings" (St. Augustine), her final illumination is that the experience of profound music ought to transform us into the beauty that we hear.

Heimweh Nach Herrlichkeit - Ein Trappist Uber Die Fulle Des Lebens (German, Hardcover): Erik Varden Heimweh Nach Herrlichkeit - Ein Trappist Uber Die Fulle Des Lebens (German, Hardcover)
Erik Varden; Foreword by Erling Kagge; Translated by Bernardin Schellenberger
R476 Discovery Miles 4 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Redeeming Freedom - The Principle of Servitude in Berulle (Hardcover): Erik Varden Redeeming Freedom - The Principle of Servitude in Berulle (Hardcover)
Erik Varden
R1,125 R851 Discovery Miles 8 510 Save R274 (24%) Out of stock
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