The Desert Fathers by Helen Waddell

The Desert Fathers by Helen Waddell

By the fourth century AD, devout Christians had begun to retreat from cities and villages to the deserts of North Africa and Asia Minor, where they sought liberation from their corrupt society amd the confining shell of the social self. This is an introduction to their stories and sayings.

Helen Waddell (1889–1965), author and translator, was born in Tokyo and educated at Victoria College and Queen's University, Belfast, and at Somerville College, Oxford. She was once described as "the Middle Ages' most persuasive interpreter" by the president of Columbia University, where she was a fellow. She wrote, among others, the nonfiction books The Wandering Scholars and Medieval Latin Lyrics; the novel Peter Abelard, Beasts and Saints; and, in 1936, The Desert Fathers, a translation of her own selections from a seventeenth-century Latin collection by Heribert Rosweyde, Vitae Patrum ("Lives of the Fathers," 2nd edition, 1628).

M. Basil Pennington, O.C.S.O. (1931–2005), was Abbot of the Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy Spirit in Conyers, Georgia. He authored over 20 books, including O Holy Mountain and Daily We Touch Him.

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ISBN 13	9780375700194
ISBN 10	0375700196
Title	The Desert Fathers
Author	Helen Waddell
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cornerstone
Year published	1998-06-18
Number of pages	256
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