The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Cistercian studies 59) by Benedicta Ward, Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh

The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Cistercian studies 59)

Benedicta Ward, Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh

269 pages first pub 1975 (editions)

nonfiction religion informative reflective slow-paced
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`Give me a word, Father', visitors to early desert monks asked. The responses of these pioneer ascetics were remembered and in the fourth century written down in Coptic, Syriac, Greek, and later Latin. Their Sayings were collected, in this case in...

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