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Third volume of the long-awaited translation of one of Augustines
classics and a great work in Christian literature. Newly translated
by Maria Boulding, O.S.B., whose masterful translation of
Augustines Confessions in the same series has been praised as being
of a different level of excellence from practically anything else
in the market (Bishop Rowan Williams, Monmouth, England). As the
psalms are a microcosm of the Old Testament, so the Expositions of
the Psalms can be seen as a microcosm of Augustinian thought. They
recapitulate and focus the experiences of Augustines personal life,
his theological reflections, and his pastoral concerns as Bishop of
Hippo.
"The Confessions" is an all time number one Christian classic -- an
extended poetic, passionate, intimate prayer written by St.
Augustine because he felt called by God to make this confession.
Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, calls Boulding's
translation "a different level of excellence from practically
anything else on the market. She has perfected an elegant and
flowing style." This 2nd edition includes a long-awaited annotated
bibliography.
This is the first volume of the long-awaited translation of one of
Augustines classics and a great work in Christian literature. Newly
translated by Maria Boulding, O.S.B., whose masterful translation
of Augustines Confessions in the same series has been praised as
being of a different level of excellence from practically anything
else in the market (Bishop Rowan Williams, Monmouth, England). As
the psalms are a microcosm of the Old Testament, so the Expositions
of the Psalms can be seen as a microcosm of Augustinian thought.
They recapitulate and focus the experiences of Augustines personal
life, his theological reflections, and his pastoral concerns as
Bishop of Hippo. This first volume of the Exposition of the Psalms
in Sister Maria Boulding's fine translation fills a long existing
vacuum among the translated works of Augustine available to
contemporary readers. Her clear and attractive translation presents
Augustine's expression of his own spirituality, which necessarily
entails his most valuable theological insights. The comprehensive
and scholarly 51-page introduction by Michael Fiedrowicz offers a
key to the Psalms' various depths of meaning and shows how they are
a microcosm of Augustinian thought. Mary T. Clark, RSCJ Author of:
Augustine in the Outstanding Christian Thinkers Series
Final volume of the long-awaited translation of one of Augustines
classics and a great work in Christian literature. Newly translated
by Maria Boulding, O.S.B., whose masterful translation of
Augustines Confessions in the same series has been praised as being
of a different level of excellence from practically anything else
in the market (Bishop Rowan Williams, Monmouth, England). As the
psalms are a microcosm of the Old Testament, so the Expositions of
the Psalms can be seen as a microcosm of Augustinian thought. They
recapitulate and focus the experiences of Augustines personal life,
his theological reflections, and his pastoral concerns as Bishop of
Hippo.
Although Augustine's "Confessions" has been translated many times,
it is not exaggeration to say that Sister Maria Boulding's
translation is "of a different level of excellence from practically
anything else on the market" (Rowan Williams, Bishop of Monmonth).
This new edition of a modern classic on prayer shows how it is not
just a hobby or a technique for Christians but an exposure to God
in which he progressively takes over. Contemplative prayer, far
from being the prerogative of a professional elite, is the fullness
of Christian living for anyone. It can completely transform the
lives of those who are prepared to take it all the way. Without
spending much time on technical distinctions, Marked for Life
speaks of the experience of prayer among ordinary people and the
Easter experience in the New Testament. It is the meeting of the
two that brings the surrender of humankind to God. As we pray
within the Easter Christ, the transforming power of God lays hold
of our failures and frustrations, the bewildering perplexities of
life, and the joy in creation and human love - in sum, the whole
stuff of human existence.
Fourth volume of the long-awaited translation of one of Augustines
classics and a great work in Christian literature. Newly translated
by Maria Boulding, O.S.B., whose masterful translation of
Augustines Confessions in the same series has been praised as being
of a different level of excellence from practically anything else
in the market (Bishop Rowan Williams, Monmouth, England). As the
psalms are a microcosm of the Old Testament, so the Expositions of
the Psalms can be seen as a microcosm of Augustinian thought. They
recapitulate and focus the experiences of Augustines personal life,
his theological reflections, and his pastoral concerns as Bishop of
Hippo.
If you want God, and long for union with him, yet sometimes wonder
what that means, or whether it can mean anything at all, you are
already walking with the God who comes...lf you have ever had an
obscure intuition that the truth of things is somehow better,
greater, more wonderful than you deserve or desire,...that there is
a mercy beyond anything you could ever suspect, you are already
drawn into the central mystery of salvation. Your hope is not a
mocking dream; God creates in human hearts a huge desire and a
sense of need, because he wants to fill them with the gift of
himself.' So begins this much acclaimed, modern spiritual classic
in which Maria Boulding explores the self-giving nature of God and
the many ways that he comes to us: in the events of our lives, in
others and in prayer. Its central message is that God comes to the
empty and the needy. Whether our need is material or spiritual,
here is a book of immense hope, comfort and promise. Maria Boulding
is a Benedictine nun of Stanbrook Abbey in Worcestershire and in
recent years has been living as a hermit.
In this title, major spiritual writer returns to examine basic
Christian truths and the experience of resurrection through
terminal illness. This is a book of hope and encouragement. Maria
Boulding was a Benedictine nun of the enclosed Stanbrook Community
in Yorkshire. She was a considerable scholar particularly of
liturgy and of St Augustine. In the last months of her life, she
wrote this remarkable book recounting her experience of the risen
Christ, as she endured painful terminal illness. Drawing heavily on
St Augustine, but also St Benedict and St Teresa of Avila, she
writes with profound understanding of how in later years she has
returned to fundamental Christian beliefs and experienced them to
be true.
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