An Introduction to the Desert Fathers by Jason Byassee
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.-
Reading Paul
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The Imago Dei
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Queer Theology
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Forgiveness
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Mimetic Theory and Biblical Interpretation
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The Canaanites
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Reading Galatians
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A Guide to St. Symeon the New Theologian
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Scripture's Knowing
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The U.S. Immigration Crisis
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The Rule of Faith
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Theological Interpretation of Scripture
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A Primer in Ecotheology
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Theology and Science Fiction
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John Chrysostom
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The Simplicity of God
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Zephaniah, Nahum, and Habakkuk
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Charles Wesley, a Prisoner of Hope
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Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi
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Wittgenstein for Theologians
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The Second-Century Apologists
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Jacques Ellul
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Lutheran Theology
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Martin Luther as He Lived and Breathed
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Inhabiting the Land
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A Companion to Philemon
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Reading Augustine
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Angels, Worms, and Bogeys
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Theologia Crucis
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Reading John
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Creationism and the Conflict over Evolution
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A Way Into Scholasticism
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Reading Bonhoeffer
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Virtue
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The Letter to the Hebrews in Social-Scientific Perspective
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Postmodern Theology
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Reading Luke
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George Lindbeck
Byassee, Jason: - Jason Byassee (PhD, Duke University) is the inaugural Butler Chair in Homiletics and Biblical Hermeneutics at Vancouver School of Theology in Vancouver, British Columbia. He previously served as senior pastor of Boone United Methodist Church in the Western North Carolina Conference and taught at Duke Divinity School. He written for the Christian Century, Sojourners, and Christianity Today and is the author of numerous books, including Trinity: The God We Don't Know, The Gifts of the Small Church, and Praise Seeking Understanding: Reading the Psalms with Augustine.f
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| ISBN 13 | 9781597525305 |
| ISBN 10 | 1597525308 |
| Title | An Introduction to the Desert Fathers |
| Author | Jason Byassee |
| Series | Cascade Companions |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Wipf & Stock Publishers |
| Year published | 2007-08-15 |
| Number of pages | 130 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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