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The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors:
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1975-02-01 - Publisher: Liturgical Press

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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 i
The Desert Fathers
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors:
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-03-27 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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The Desert Fathers were the first Christian monks, living in solitude in the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. In contrast to the formalised and official
The Desert Fathers
Language: en
Pages: 295
Authors: Helen Waddell
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1952 - Publisher:

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The Desert Fathers
Language: en
Pages: 136
Authors: Peter H. Gšrg
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-01 - Publisher: Ignatius Press

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In the late third century, more and more people withdrew to the radical seclusion of the desert so as to live entirely for God under the direction of a spiritua
An Introduction to the Desert Fathers
Language: en
Pages: 130
Authors: Jason Byassee
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-08-15 - Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

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The desert fathers wanted to get away from a church co-opted by empire and a Christian faith grown cold and listless. They retreated to the desert to do battle