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Nombre canónico: Ward, Benedicta
Otros nombres: Sister Benedicta Ward
Sister Benedicta Ward SLG
Ward, Florence Margaret (birth)
Sister Benedicta of Jesus
Fecha de nacimiento: 1933-02-04
Fecha de fallecimiento: 2022-05-23
Género: female
Nacionalidad: UK
Lugar de nacimiento: Durham, England, UK
Lugares de residencia: Fairacres, Oxforshire, England, UK
Educación: St. Anne's College, Oxford (D.Phil)
University of Manchester (BA)
Ocupaciones: theologian
historian of early Christian spirituality
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Organizaciones: Oxford University
Church of England
Community of the Sisters of the Love of God
Premios y honores: Supernumerary Fellow & Dean of Degrees, Harris Manchester College, Univ. of Oxford; member--Anglican religious community of the Sisters of the Love of God
Biografía breve: 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… por 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 reseñas más. | Jul 23, 2021 |

The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian… por Benedicta Ward

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."

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stillatim | 5 reseñas más. | Oct 23, 2020 |

Wisdom of the Desert Fathers (Fairacres publication… por Benedicta Ward

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.

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StFrancisofAssisi | Mar 19, 2020 |

The Desert Fathers : Sayings of the Early Christian… por Benedicta Ward

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.… (más)

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dfortson | 5 reseñas más. | Mar 4, 2020 |

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