The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection
Benedicta Ward & Metropolitan Anthony
Book 59 of Cistercian Studies Series
Language: English
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: Feb 1, 1975
Benedicta Ward & Metropolitan Anthony
Book 59 of Cistercian Studies Series
Language: English
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: Feb 1, 1975
Description:
`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 in Coptic, Syriac, Greek, and later Latin. Their Sayings were collected, in this case in the alphabetical order of the monks and nuns who uttered them, and read by generations of Christians as life-giving words that would help readers along the path to salvation.