The Desert Fathers by M. Basil Pennington, Helen Waddell

The Desert Fathers

M. Basil Pennington, Helen Waddell

256 pages first pub 1628 (view editions)

nonfiction religion informative reflective slow-paced
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By the fourth century A.D., devout Christians--men and women alike--had begun to retreat from cities and villages to the deserts of North Africa and Asia Minor, where they sought liberation from their corrupt society and the confining shell of the...

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