The publisher] is to be congratulated on a major publishing enterprise....
It is an important ecumenical series, each book being translated or edited from the original or best available texts and introduced by recognized scholars and spiritual leaders.
Clebsch of Stanford University, President of the American Academy of Religion, in his Preface to this volume, says, This translator\'s fidelity to the texts ensures that the reader receives in these works Athanasius\' meaning, so far as feasible in the order of his thoughts and in the equivalence of his words..
William A.
The Psalms are presented as a variety of attitudes which coexist in a truly harmonious and whole sense of prayer.
The Letter to Marcellinus is an introduction to the spiritual sense of the Psalms.
From a literary perspective, it created a new Christian genre for the lives of saints.
This work contributed greatly to the establishment of monastic Life in Western Christianity.
Written at the request of the desert monks of Egypt to provide an ideal pattern of the ascetical life, it immediately became astonishingly popular.
Antony, the founder of Christian monasticism.
It tells the spiritual story of St.
Athanasius\' The Life of Antony is one of the foremost classics of Christian asceticism.
As the Bishop of Alexandria, spiritual master and theologian, he led the Church in its battle against the Arian heresy. 295-373) Athanasius was a major figure of 14th-century Christendom.
Athanasius (c.
For in fact he who hears the one reading receives the song that is recited as being about him, and either, when he is convicted by his conscience, being pierced, he will repent, or hearing of the hope that resides in God, and of the succor available to believers-how this kind of grace exists for him-he exults and begins to give thanks to God.
Clebsch And it seems to me that these words become like a mirror to the persons singing them, so that he might perceive himself and the emotions of his soul, and thus affected, he might recite them.
Gregg Preface by William A.
Methodist Recorder Athanasius: The Life of Antony and The Letter to Marcellinus Translation and introduction by Robert c.
This means that for the first time authoritative texts of these great classics are being made available in an attractive large paperback format with four-color original art covers and with the texts, notes, introductions and prefaces all presented in an easy-to-read type.
The publisher] is to be congratulated on a major publishing enterprise....
It is an important ecumenical series, each book being translated or edited from the original or best available texts and introduced by recognized scholars and spiritual leaders
