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Following the Track– What the desert fathers and mothers practiced () Track– The desert movement as the first wisdom school () Track– Review of some core texts () Track– The desert as any “cell” under liminal conditions () Track– Identifying your desert and living the desert sayings () avg rating — ratings — published Want to Read. rPs i ofessor Emeritus of Medieval History at the University of Manitoba. His publications include e Anonymous Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Cambridge,) and More Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Cambridge,) The Sayings of the Desert Fathers give us a glimpse into the asceticism, the practical theology, and the heart of what the monastic life was all about, at least in these early years. Much has been written to show the excesses of The Desert Fathers. 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 The Book of the Elders translated by John Wortley — a big and expensive book, but probably the largest collection of sayings by the Desert Mothers and Fathers currently available. Rate this bookofstarsofstarsofstarsofstarsofstars. Books shelved as desert-fathers: In the Heart of the Desert: The Spiritualilty of the Desert Fathers and Mothers by John Chryssavgis, Desert Christiansfathers’, as distinct from the early Christian theologians who were known as ‘fathers of the church’. It is a term which suggests that their influence was as vital to Christian life as the theology of the ‘fathers’ but that it grew out of the desert and solitude, rather than out of the debates of councils and bishops the book is accessible to all students and scholars, and anyone with a general interest in this important and fascinating phenomenon. Selected and translated by Helen Waddell, The Starting from the research of the Sayings of the Desert Fathersthe most complete collection of the Elders’ apophthegms in the fourth century Egyptthe present study Desert Fathers, early Christian hermits whose practice of asceticism in the Egyptian desert, beginning in the 3rd century, formed the basis of Christian monasticism. The Sayings were passed down orally among the monks until such a time as it was thought necessary to write them down. This The Desert Fathers is the perfect introduction to the stories and sayings of these heroic pioneers of the contemplative tradition.