There is a hunger in the modern world for spirituality. One vast resource of spiritual wisdom, too often overlooked, comes out of the pre-Reformation church—from the martyrs of the first centuries of Christianity, through the long tradition of monasticism, to the medieval Christian mystics. Now, assembled and digested for daily intake, the spiritual insights of over seventy men and women of pre-Reformation Christianity resound through the pages of Charles Ringma’s new meditational reader, Hear the Ancient Wisdom. Ringma’s work reminds us that there are deep wells of Christian reflection to draw from in the work of early Christian writers such as John Chrysostom, Augustine, Benedict, Francis of Assisi, Bonaventure, Bernard of Clairvaux, Meister Eckhart, Hildegard of Bingen, and Julian of Norwich.
From these figures we can learn more about the practices of prayer and contemplation, the relevance of community, the challenge of asceticism, the love of God for God’s own sake, living the Gospel, the longing for union with God, the practices of justice, and much more. Hear the Ancient Wisdom is formatted to give you a meaningful thought for each day, equipping you to explore the wisdom of these brothers and sisters of the past on specific biblical topics throughout the year. And in the Logos Bible Software edition, you can further expand your study of these figures with just a few clicks. Quickly perform powerful topical and word based searches across this text and your entire library, and compare Scripture translations for the references given each day. The amazing functionality of Logos Bible Software will allow you to delve deeper into this treasury of wisdom as you are guided by Charles Ringma’s warmth and insight.