An Introduction to the Desert Fathers

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An Introduction to the Desert Fathers is written by Jason Byassee and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1621892921 (ISBN 10) and 9781621892922 (ISBN 13).

The desert fathers wanted to get away from a church co-opted by empire and a Christian faith grown cold and listless. They retreated to the desert to do battle against demons and against their own worst desires. They had no intention of being famous; yet ironically their Sayings have inspired millions of imitators over the centuries. This guide is meant to accompany a reading of the Sayings of the Desert Fathers, in hopes that readers with lives quite different than those third- and fourth-century dwellers of the Egyptian desert might nevertheless come to imitate their lives of poverty, chastity, and obedience; and more importantly, that readers might grow more imaginative and passionate in their following of the same Lord.