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The Lives Of The Desert Fathers (Paperback)
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The Lives Of The Desert Fathers (Paperback)
Series: Cistercian Studies Series, 34
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In the year 394 seven monks from Palestine made a difficult journey
through the Egyptian desert, drawn there by stories of remarkable
men. What they found in the communities living far up the Nile
Valley fully accorded with their expectations, and in the account
written by one of their number we have a rare contemporary source
of information about the lives of these Desert Fathers. The witness
of the monks in the face of a corrupt and declining, though
nominally Christian Empire, and the roots of monasticism in fourth
century Egypt, are subjects of steadily growing interest in the
Church in the twentieth century. In her long and illuminating
introduction Sister Benedicta Ward SLG explores the background of
these traveller's tales and their encounters with the great men of
the Desert, and places the account in its literary context
alongside the complementary text of the 'Sayings' of the Fathers
and the later, more sophisticated literature. She indicates
throughout the social impact of the Fathers and the lasting truths
discovered by these simple men in their way of holiness. This
translation of the Historia Monachorum by Norman Russell is the
first available in English, and will be of absorbing interest for
the general reader as well as for students.
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