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    Very Good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious ...
    Release Year
    1981
    ISBN
    9780879079345

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    Product Identifiers

    Publisher
    Liturgical Press
    ISBN-10
    0879079347
    ISBN-13
    9780879079345
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    441679

    Product Key Features

    Book Title
    Lives of the Desert Fathers : the Historia Monachorum in Aegypto
    Number of Pages
    192 Pages
    Language
    English
    Topic
    Spirituality, Monasticism, Christianity / Catholic
    Publication Year
    1981
    Genre
    Religion
    Author
    Norman Russell
    Book Series
    Cistercian Studies
    Format
    Perfect

    Dimensions

    Item Height
    0.6 in
    Item Weight
    13 Oz
    Item Length
    8.5 in
    Item Width
    5.5 in

    Additional Product Features

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    Trade
    LCCN
    81-134973
    TitleLeading
    The
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    . . . may make a good source for the historian; it may give some information and pleasure for the casual reader. But the spiritual man will never forget the people he meets in it. Coptic Church Review
    Series Volume Number
    34
    Synopsis
    Eyewitness accounts of the lives and teachings of the fourth-century Desert Fathers from the Historia monachorum in Aegypto., 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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