The Word in the Desert PDF book is popular Religion book written by Douglas Burton-Christie. The book was released by Oxford University Press on 1993-02-04 with total hardcover pages 353. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read The Word in the Desert by Douglas Burton-Christie in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
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Growing scholarly debate in recent years on the religious world of late antiquity has focused new attention on the quest for holiness by early Christian monks k
Looks at the history and uses of plants of the Sonoran Desert, including creosote, palm trees, mesquite, organpipe cactus, amaranth, chiles, and Devil's claw
`Give me a word, Father', visitors to early desert monks asked. The responses of these pioneer ascetics were remembered and in the fourth century written down i
An investigation of the retreat to the desert and the growth of monasticism in 4th-century AD Egypt, which has been recognized as a significant movement of earl
