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The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
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Benedicta Ward |
The fourth-century ascetic flight to the desert indelibly marked Christianity. The faithful who did not embrace the austerity of the desert admired those who did and sought them out for counsel and c… |
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Prayer and thought in monastic tradition
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Santha Bhattacharji,Benedicta Ward |
A chronological picture of the development of monastic thought and prayer from the early English Church (Bede, Adomnan) through to the 17th century and William Law's religious community at King's Cli… |
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Harlots of the Desert
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Benedicta Ward |
Stories of conversion have always attracted mankind's attention, and this was especially so among the monks of the ancient and medieval world. In the literature of fourth-century Egypt, alongside the… |
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