Founders of Christian eremitism, these heroes of asceticism and virtue earned a reputation as much by their lifestyle as by their writings which have been translated into all languages and distributed throughout the Christian world.
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Founders of Christian eremitism, these heroes of asceticism and virtue earned a reputation as much by their lifestyle as by their writings which have been translated into all languages and distributed throughout the Christian world.
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Add this copy of The Day-To-Day Life of the Desert Fathers in Fourth to cart. $25.17, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2002 by St Bedes Publishing.
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New. Fourth century Egypt is the classical focus for study of monasticism. Derwas Chitty's The Desert: A City gives us the eagle's eye view of that incomparable era; the book we now have in our hands gives us the worm's eye view. The author has culled the literally thousands of sayings of the Fathers, and other essential texts such as Cassian's, Palladius's, in order to lay out the mundane contours of this epitome of all arenas of spiritual warfare. What did the monks eat? What did they wear? What were their cells made of? What were their daily itineraries? There are chapters on welcoming visitors, outings and trips, the ''desert bestiary, '' the community weekend, the relationship between elders and disciples, visions and miracles, and attitudes toward and preparations for death. So what--a catalog of pious trivia? Rather, a clearing away of both romantic notions and skeptical caricatures of early monasticism to reveal its fundamental core: the pursuit of the most authentic communion with God possible in this world, the pearl of great price, the one thing necessary.
Add this copy of The Day-to-Day Life of the Desert Fathers in Fourth to cart. $37.21, new condition, Sold by Blackwell's rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2002 by Fordham University Press.
