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Paperback An Introduction to the Desert Fathers Book

ISBN: 1108703720

ISBN13: 9781108703727

An Introduction to the Desert Fathers

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Christian monasticism emerged in the Egyptian deserts in the fourth century AD. This introduction explores its origins and subsequent development and what it aimed to achieve, including the obstacles that it encountered; for the most part making use of the monks' own words as they are preserved (in Greek) primarily in the so-called Sayings of the Desert Fathers. Mainly focussing on monastic settlements in the Nitrian Desert (especially at Sc t ),...

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