Driven to Move into the Wilderness to Pray: The Fourth-Century Desert Tradition
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Driven to Move into the Wilderness to Pray: The Fourth-Century Desert Tradition
Abstract: This study examines fourth-century spiritual elders who responded to the command of Christ by migrating into the desert hills outside their home-towns in order to seek the presence of God in solitary prayer; and finds that their deep spiritual askesis, handed on from elder to disciple from generation to generation, produced a rich treasury of wisdom Sayings (Apophthegmata) treasured in the heritage of the Orthodox Church.
Keywords: migration, asceticism, Apophthegmata, early Christianity, spirituality
Citation suggestion: McCarty, V.K. “Driven to Move into the Wilderness to Pray: The Fourth-Century Desert Tradition.” Transilvania, no. 10 (2021): 22-25. https://doi.org/10.51391/trva.2021.10.04.
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