John Wortley

An Introduction to the Desert Fathers

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An accessible guide to the lives and teaching of the earliest Christian monks, largely using their own words.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 473g
• ISBN-13: 9781108481021
• ISBN-10: 1108481027
• Artikelnr.: 54913944

Autorenporträt

John Wortley is emeritus professor at the University of Manitoba and an Anglican priest. His previous publications include The Book of the Elders, Paul of Monembasia, and The Spiritual Meadow (all from Cistercian Publications) as well as Skylitzes' Synopsis of Byzantine History and The Anonymous Sayings of the Desert Fathers, both from Cambridge University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

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.