The Desert a City

The Desert a CityDerwas Chitty The story of the development of desert monasticism in the early centuries of the Church's life, told with attention to scholarly detail, and yet with a passionate concern for the story which removes the book far from the dry and dusty character of too much "history". Paperbound

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and yet with a passionate concern for the story which removes the book far from the dry and dusty character of too much "history"

Gregory as chanted during Great Lent

In an age of doctrinal relativity and spiritual insensitivity

her counsels are steeped in the holy Scripture and the inspiration she draws from the services of the Orthodox Church

particularly in attempting to respond to the distortions of sectarians and those misled by heretical notions

were firm in their faith

it is apparent that he too is being addressed

In an age of renewed temptation by the dark forces of magic and witchcraft

and quite intentionally excludes anything the editor identifies as post-Nicene: his contempt for the Church after that time is too well known to need further comment

drawn there by stories of remarkable men

providing detailed order for recurrent “atypical” services of the Menaion cycle