When Christians living under Muslim rule began to compose theological works in Syriac and Arabic during the first Abbasid century, about 750-850 AD, their intent was not to convert Muslims, but to rea
Under the title The Reformation of Morals, the tenth-century Syrian Orthodox scholar Yahya ibn 'Adi offered encouragement to the effort to promote moral perfection, especially among kings and other me
Charged with training young monks at Gethsemani Abbey, Thomas Merton combined his literary genius and his love of the monastic tradition to produce Monastic Orientation Notes as the bases of his class
