The desert fathers wanted to get away from a church co-opted by empire and a Christian faith grown cold and listless. Th
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Christian monasticism emerged in the Egyptian deserts in the fourth century AD. This introduction explores its origins a
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Eyewitness accounts of the lives and teachings of the fourth-century Desert Fathers from the Historia monachorum in Aegy
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Presents the ancient thought and lifestyle of the Desert Fathers and Mothers through traditional Wisdom Stories in which
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In the fourth century, thousands of men and women fled into the Egyptian desert seeking to recapture the passion of the
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