The Desert Fathers: Translations from the Latin by Helen Waddell

The Desert Fathers: Translations from the Latin

Helen Waddell

312 pages first pub 1628 (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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