Mcguire Brian Patrick (149 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Good+. Crisp, clean pages except for a prior owner's stamp on the title page; square, uncreased spine; soft cover shows hard vertical creases along the left front and right rear, tiny scuffs and edge wear along the spine sides and outside edges, and mild fading along the spine; otherwise sound. xvi, 482pp.; Classics of Western Spirituality. …

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, trade paperback, has a slight lean to the binding, and light rubbing with a touch of edge wear to the covers. Overall, a solid, Very Good copy.

Paperback. Extensive pencil underlining, previous owner's name, sunned and creased spine. 482 pp.

Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION(dated title page) 1988 Cistercian jumbo trade paperback, ISBN: 0879079851. SPINE UNCRACKED, faint creasing bottom spine and top(w/,1/4" crease top right spine(. Text Tiny discoloration(NOT REMAINDER) near lower exterior spine: 2" crease near upper corner pp.427-432, 1/2"crease lower corner p.437-diminishes thru p.490. Remaining 513 pages LIKE NEW. Cover:Tiny crease upper front, lower back corner tips.1/4" surface crease near upper back corner. V/G+/V/G++ w /like new sheen.…

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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No jacket, modest shelfwear to boards, clean pages and sound binding.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "The Classics series, which has inspired many less successful imitations over the years, has fulfilled its promise and given us an invaluable resource of the soul."The Catholic Historical ReviewJean Gerson: Early Workstranslated and introduced by Brian Patrick McGuirepreface by Bernard McGinn"However much advanced scholarship and great learning in God's law may be quite suitable for the person who wishes to come to the height of contemplation, nevertheless sometimes such knowledge blocks this pursuit. Learning is not in itself a problem. Rather, it is the arrogance and the self-inflation that the learned person derives from his knowledge. For it is clearly impossible to reach true contemplation except through humility, as the Apostle teaches (1 Cor 3:18). For if anyone, he says, seems wise in this world, he must become a fool in order to be wise. In other words, he should take on humble understanding and consider himself a fool with regard to God's wisdom. From The Mountain of Contemplation [2]Jean Gerson (1363-1429), chancellor of the University of Paris from 1395 until his death, was one of the outstanding theologians and preachers of his time. Today he is all but forgotten, except in terms of his role in resolving the schism of the Western Church. Gerson deserves to be seen as a man of great passion and learning. He sought to map the path to the contemplative life in a way that made it accessible to groups outside the universities. Partly because of continuing closeness to members of his family, especially his sisters, Gerson insisted on writing many of his works in French. His Mountain of Contemplation is a major event in the history of language and in terms of gender relations in the religious life. Gerson knew how innovative his approach was, for he opened his treatise with the words: "Some persons will wonder and ask why, in a matter so lofty as that of the contemplative life, I choose to write in French rather than in Latin, and more to women than to men."Thanks to Gerson's personal letters, translated here for the first time, it is possible to get close to the doubts and pain of a man who sought the vision of god and yearned for affective bonds. Gerson's life and writings can be seen as a search for unity in the midst of a rich and chaotic age whose spirituality we are only now beginning to appreciate. In giving advice to confessors, attacking the Romance of the Rose, preaching on the feast of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, discerning between true and false revelations, and in outlining his Practical Mystical Theology, Gerson emerges as one of the most articulate voices of a Christian spirituality that transcends the Middle Ages and speaks to our time. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Number and letters in pen on front free endpaper, othewise text clean and tight; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 376 pages.

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Hardcover. Condition: Excellent. 8vo, xvi + 482pp. Hardcover, in excellent condition. Tight binding and crisp, clean, interior. Previous owner's small ink stamp to bottom corner of free front endpaper, otherwise contents are clean and unmarked. Covers are in great condition with hardly any wear.

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. In this intimate portrait of one of the Middle Ages' most consequential men, Brian Patrick McGuire delves into the life of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux to offer a refreshing interpretation that finds within this grand historical figure a deeply spiritual human being who longed for the reflective quietude of the monastery even as he helped shape the destiny of a church and a continent. Heresy and crusade, politics and papacies, theology and disputation shaped this astonishing man's life, and McGuire presents it all in a deeply informed and clear-eyed biography.Following Bernard from his birth in 1090 to his death in 1153 at the abbey he had founded four decades earlier, Bernard of Clairvaux reveals a life teeming with momentous events and spiritual contemplation, from Bernard's central roles in the first great medieval reformation of the Church and the Second Crusade, which he came to regret, to the crafting of his books, sermons, and letters. We see what brought Bernard to monastic life and how he founded Clairvaux Abbey, established a network of Cistercian monasteries across Europe, and helped his brethren monks and abbots in heresy trials, affairs of state, and the papal schism of the 1130s.By reevaluating Bernard's life and legacy through his own words and those of the people closest to him, McGuire reveals how this often-challenging saint saw himself and conveyed his convictions to others. Above all, this fascinating biography depicts Saint Bernard of Clairvaux as a man guided by Christian revelation and open to the achievements of the human spirit. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. First published in 1988, this book has been widely debated, inspiring the current interest on medieval friendship. In a new introduction, McGuire surveys the critical reaction to the original edition and new research on friendship.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 43 pages. Minor scuffing to covers. Scarce.