His name has become a by-word for faith throughout the world. In the early 1830s he embarked upon an extraordinary adventure. Disturbed by the faithlessness of the Church in general, he longed to have something to point to as 'visible proof that our God and Father is the same faithful creator as he ever was'. He was more successful than anyone could have believed possible and is as much an example to our generation, as he was to his.

    Anthony the Great, along with thousands of monks and nuns who followed. The Northern Thebaid--the Russian "desert" of the forested, marshy North--offered an equal number of monks and nuns a place to seek their salvation in the footsteps of great monastic Fathers of more recent times, such as St. Sergius of Radonezh, St. Cyril of White Lake and St. Nilus of Sora. Though the sanctity of the Fathers of the Egyptian desert--elemental and mighty--and the stark brightness of the southern nature is quite distinct from the sanctity of the Russian desert dwellers--quiet and lofty--and the aquarelle soft tones of the Russian northern nature, there is the same "noetic activity," the same silence. The Russian spiritual tradition of the 14th to 17th centuries, presented in THE NORTHERN THEBAID, is identical in essence with the entire Byzantine tradition of spirituality. Chronicled in strikingly individual portrayals, THE NORTHERN THEBAID offers vivid and clear insights into the psychology of a saint. It features an introduction by Prof. I.M. Kontzevitch, 12 spiritual biographies and a preface by Fr. Seraphim Rose. This edition is a facsimile of the original edition, which was hand-printed by Fr. Seraphim and his monastic brothers in the forests of Northern California.

    

    This survey traces what happened, in connection with the title 'Son of God'. With his encyclopaedic knowledge of the period, Professor Hengel examines the concept of Son of God in the milieu of the-New Testament, in Judaism and the Hellenistic world and their antecedents and then shows how it began to be used in earliest Christianity, in so doing shedding a new light on many classic problems of New Testament interpretation. Martin Hengel was Professor of New Testament and Early Judaism in the University of Tubingen.

    With a changing life and growing faith there followed years as a slave captain and customs man, in the heyday of smuggling, before he entered the ministry.The author of "Amazing Grace" left hymns and letters that for over two-hundred years have led people to Christ. His story illustrates what God can do with one man preserved Through Many Dangers

    In this classic work, Robert Murray offers the fullest and most vivid picture yet available of the development and characte >

    His knowledge of Greek and Hebrew equipped him to produce the Vulgate, the Latin version that was the official Bible of the Catholic church until recent decades. Jerome s biblical commentaries blended the insights of earlier writers with his own contributions. His translations and expansions of some of the works of Eusebius put all subsequent church historians in his debt.A beautifully written book, its text marked by clarity of thought and elegance of expression, wide-ranging in its learning, yet delicately worked and immensely readable. E.D. Hunt, Journal of Roman StudiesA superb biography . . . so readable that it is easy to forget that practically every sentence is the fruit of research. W.H.C. Frend, New York Review of BooksA masterpiece of scholarship. Sunday Telegraph