Benedicta Ward (1933–2022)
Autore di The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
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Benedicta Ward is Reader in the History of Christian Spirituality at the University of Oxford and an honorary lecturer at Harris Manchester College.
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Opere di Benedicta Ward
Give Love and Receive the Kingdom: Essential People and Themes of English Spirituality (2018) 22 copie
Intellectual Life in the Middle Ages: Essays Presented to Margaret Gibson (1992) — A cura di — 17 copie
In the Company of Christ: Through Lent, Palm Sunday, Good Friday and Easter to Pentecost (2005) 16 copie
Christ Within Me: Prayers and Meditations from the Anglo-Saxon Tradition (1999) — Traduttore — 15 copie
Opere correlate
Prayers and Meditations of St. Anselm with the Proslogion (Penguin Classics) (1979) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni — 421 copie
The Lives of the Desert Fathers: Historia Monachorum in Aegypto (1981) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 247 copie
In the Heart of the Desert: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers (2003) — alcune edizioni — 173 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Ward, Benedicta
- Nome legale
- Ward, Florence Margaret (birth)
- Altri nomi
- Sister Benedicta Ward
Sister Benedicta Ward SLG
Sister Benedicta of Jesus - Data di nascita
- 1933-02-04
- Data di morte
- 2022-05-23
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Durham, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Fairacres, Oxforshire, England, UK
- Istruzione
- St. Anne's College, Oxford (D.Phil|1978)
University of Manchester (BA) - Attività lavorative
- theologian
historian of early Christian spirituality
nun - Organizzazioni
- Oxford University
Church of England
Community of the Sisters of the Love of God - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Supernumerary Fellow & Dean of Degrees, Harris Manchester College, Univ. of Oxford; member--Anglican religious community of the Sisters of the Love of God
- Breve biografia
- Benedicta Ward is Reader in the History of Christian Spirituality in the University of Oxford. Her most recent book is Anselm of Canterbury: His Life and Legacy (SPCK 2009). She is a member of the Anglican monastic community of the Sisters of the Love of God.
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The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical… di Benedicta Ward
Best of the early Christian writings. As far as I'm concern these should be in the canon. Mandatory for anyone even remotely interested in the early church, monasticism, as well as those who want to mature their faith.
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thegreyhermit | 5 altre recensioni | Jul 23, 2021 |
thegreyhermit | 5 altre recensioni | Jul 23, 2021 | 
As you'd expect, there's a lot of contradictory advice in here, but plenty of it is good. I do wish Ward had included more notes and more about the monks in question. This is very much a popularisation; not much use for we, the more academically inclined.
"The true labourer struggles that the work may not deteriorate."
"The true labourer struggles that the work may not deteriorate."
Arranged under 30 headings for daily reading, this gift book includes short accessible extracts from the great spiritual writings of the Christian tradition. The contributions are selected and introduced by authors with a strong international appeal.
The desert fathers provided inspiration for Christian spirituality throughout the Middle Ages and beyond. The men and women who first embraced the life of solitude in the deserts of Egypt, Palestine and Syria were seldom clerics or scholars. Yet these uneducated peasants, shepherds, itinerant traders, former slaves and prostitutes soon attracted so many followers they were said to have turned the desert into a city. From the fourth century onwards, along with biographies and full-length treatises, their reflections were brought together and widely circulated. Powerful and moving in their depth of religious conviction and wholehearted, even joyful, commitment to poverty, simplicity and humility, the sayings directly influenced the Rule of Saint Benedict, and set the pattern for Western monasticism.… (altro)
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