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Histories of the Monks of Upper Egypt and the Life of Onnophrius: Volume 140

Histories of the Monks of Upper Egypt and the Life of Onnophrius: Volume 140

Paphnutius
Vivian, Tim

Paperback

Series: Cistercian Studies, Book 140

Ancient Egypt

ISBN10: 0879075406
ISBN13: 9780879075408
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: Feb 1 2000
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.62 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

The desert stood in stark opposition to the oikoumene, the inhabited world of the fourth century. Not because the world was a bad place, but because the desert 'understood geographically, religiously, spiritually, and mystically ' was the harsh, uncomprising place where the Christian could be perfected by God. Far from the Christian metropolis of Alexandria, removed from the well-known and much 'visited monastic settlements of the Thebaid, and infinitely remote from Rome, lay the garrison towns of Aswan and Philae. There Christians and pagans coexisted. Integral to the christian community on this desert frontier of Empire were the local monks 'ascetics, intercessors, contemplatives, and miracle workers.

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