Early Christian Spirituality

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Charles Kannengiesser
Fortress Press - 119 páginas
These freshly translated documents cover the main trends of Christian spirituality from the second to the seventh centuries

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I Introduction
1
II Selections from Odes of Solomon
37
III The Martyrs of Lyon
39
IV Clement of Alexandria
51
V Athanasius of Alexandria
56
VI Gregory Nazianzus
78
VII Ambrose of Milan
82
VIII Augustine of Hippo
101
IX Romanos the Melodist
114
X Maximus the Confessor
117
Bibliography
118
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Página 108 - A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
Página 57 - ... fables. And exercise thyself unto godliness : for bodily exercise is profitable for a little ; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come.
Página 112 - You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, and your whole soul, and your whole mind. This is the greatest of the commandments and the first. And the second, its like, is this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Página 56 - Where your fathers tempted me by proving me, And saw my works forty years : Wherefore I was displeased with this generation, And said, they do alway err in their heart ; But they did not know my ways ; As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.
Página 56 - Today. if you hear his voice. do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.
Página 62 - Who makes His angels spirits And His ministers a flame of fire." But to the Son He says: "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of gladness more than Your companions.
Página 98 - I am the flower of the field, and the lily of the valleys.
Página 108 - The consequence is that if one member suffers all the members suffer with it ; and if one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

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