The Book of the Elders: Sayings of the Desert Fathers The Systematic Collection by

The Book of the Elders: Sayings of the Desert Fathers The Systematic Collection

Cistercian Studies

with John Wortley (Translator)

463 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history religion reflective slow-paced
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In the early part of the fourth century, a few Christians, mostly men and some women, began to withdraw from "the world" to retreat into the desert, there to practice their new religion more seriously. The person who aspired to "renounce the world...

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