Introduction to the Desert Fathers

Informationen zum Autor John Wortley is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the University of Manitoba, Canada. His publications include The Anonymous Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Cambridge, 2013) and More Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Cambridge, forthcoming). Klappentext An accessible guide to the lives and teaching of the earliest Christian monks, largely using their own words. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Desert Fathers; 2. Beginnings; 3. Becoming a monk; 4. Impediments to progress; 5. The object of the exercise; 6. Prayer; 7. Discretion; 8. Work; 9. Eating and drinking; 10. Hospitality and neighbourliness; 11. Women in the desert; 12. Literacy; 13. Heresy; 14. The Pachomian experiment.

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• Authors: John Wortley, John (University of Manitoba Wortley, Wortley John
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781108481021
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48102-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / History, Christianity, History of Religion, Ancient History, Church history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, The Early Church