Merton a Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

FURLONG, MONICA

Leaders & Notable People

Harpercollins Publisher

<p>With admirable candor and sensitive insight, Monica Furlong traces the stages of growth that made Merton the unique figure that he was. She draws not only on his writings but on his voluminous correspondence and unpublished journals and on interviews with virtually everyone who knew him well, to present a fully sympathetic  but nonadulatory portrait of this gifted and complex man.</p>

Merton: A Biography

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Harper&Row

God's a good man, and other poems

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Mowbrays

Adopting a non-dogmatic, experimental approach, Monica Furlong wrestles with some traditional symbols of the Christian faith and asks how they can still be relevant in a culture in which the Church seems increasingly marginalized. She rediscovers and interprets some modern doctrines and symbols.

Bird of Paradise: Glimpses of Living Myth

Mowbray Bookstore

The women mystics of medieval Europe represent the very first feminine voices heard in a world where women were nearly silent. As such, they are striking and unusual, strange, powerful and urgent. Monica Furlong uses key selections from among these women's own writings and writings about them by their contemporaries, along with her own assessment of them, to open up their contributions to a wide popular audience. The eleven women represented in this anthology were housewives, visionaries, abbesses, beguines, recluses, and nuns who wrote between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries. They include:     •  Héloise, the scholar and abbess, whose letters to Abelard are treasure of medieval literature    •  Hildegard of Bingen, the visionary Rhineland nun    •  Clare of Assisi, the close friend of Saint Francis and founder of the Poor Clares    •  Catherine of Siena, an influential spiritual counselor whose book,  Dialogue,  consists of a debate between herself and God    •  Julian of Norwich, the English hermitess who spent the greater part of her life meditating on and coming to understand the striking visions she received as a young woman    •  and many others

Visions and Longings

Politics & Social Sciences

Women's Studies

Mowbray & Co Ltd

A dangerous delight: Women and power in the Church

SPCK.

<p>Founded in 1987 by a group of women exasperated by sexism in the church, the St. Hilda Community has been both a centre of lively and imaginative innovations in liturgy and a focus of sometimes bitter dispute. This book brings the community's story up to date and collects the best of its prayers.</p>

The New Women Included: Book of Services and Prayers

Christian Books & Bibles

Christian Living

SPCK Publishing

This is a collection of prayers and poems by Monica Furlong, bringing together material published by SPCK, such as the prayers in Women Included, and from her book God’s a Good Man. The aim here is to make this writing available to a new audience, with an introduction about Monica and her life.

Prayers & Poems

Worship & Devotion

The Church of England is one of the great institutions of the nation: closely enmeshed in its history, its politics and, above all, its religious beliefs. Could this precious resource be in decline? Falling numbers, particularly since the 1960s has made this become an urgent question. Accepting this, the Church has embarked upon extensive reforms to try to stem the loss of members. A clear and wide-ranging account of the history and development of the Church of England, is followed by a survey of the issues and opportunities the church faces in the 21st century. This came out at the turn of the century and has been updated by Wesley Carr, former Dean of Westminster, for the 2006 edition.

C of E: The State It's in - The Past and the Present

Society for promoting Christian knowledge

Here is a series of meditations which describe the religious dimensions of life in terms of an inward journey. As the ways of the journey are many and varied, so Furlong contemplates its byways from different vantage points, drawing from Eastern and Western tradition of spiritual disciplines.

Travelling in

Hodder&Stoughton

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