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With: Historical commentaryBiographical infoAppendix with further readings For nearly 2,000 years, Christian mystics, martyrs, and sages have documented their search for the divine. Their writings have bestowed boundless wisdom upon subsequent generations. But they have also burdened many spiritual... Read More about Writings of John Cassian (Upper Room Spiritual Classics)

Quintus Tertullian (c. 160-c. 220) is distinguished by being the first major Christian thinker to write in the Latin language. According to Eusebius, he was raised in Carthage, the son of a Roman centurion. Following his conversion to the faith, he became an impassioned defender of the rights of Chr... Read More about Tertullian, Origen, and Cassian on Prayer: Essential Ancient Christian Writings

St John Cassian's little treatise on the Incarnation is of a very different character his better-known works of spirituality, the Institutes and the Collations. Cassian wrote the De Incarnatione in 429, at the request of Leo, Archdeacon of Rome, as part of the build-up to the condemnation of Nestori... Read More about On the Incarnation of Christ: Against the Heretic Nestorius

This compilation edition of the startling serial killer diary series presents three short books, complete and unabridged: Book #1, Killing Matt Cooper, Book #2, Killing Sam Knight, and Book #3, Killing Miss Underwood. Book #1 finds FEMA crisis manager by day and serial killer by night Samuel H. Knig... Read More about Knight Chronicles I - III