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Información de la obraThe Word in the Desert: Scripture and the Quest for Holiness in Early Christian Monasticism por Douglas Burton-Christie
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But these limitations are no more than minor blemishes on a superb piece of scholarship that deserves to be widely read. Another door is unlocked by this remarkable volume. For years histories of spirituality have chided Protestants for having no spirituality. With the appearance of this book and its persuasive conclusion that scripture was part of the life-book of the desert fathers and mothers, the case denying Protestant spirituality falls. Protestants have always nurtured a spirituality dependent upon scripture. Burton-Christie's engaging examination of the desert fathers (and mothers) should prove to be a valuable resource not only for those with technical interests in either hermeneutics or asceticism but also for those who are seeking a profoundly scriptural form of Christian spirituality. A rapid enumeration of the themes of this book does little justice to its nature. Like the sayings of the Apophthegmata themselves, its rich texture of argument and evocation deserves to be pondered by students of Christian spirituality in a receptive but questioning spirit.
Growing scholarly debate in recent years on the religious world of late antiquity has focused new attention on the quest for holiness by early Christian monks known as the desert fathers. This book explores the setting within which their early monastic movement emerged. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Sternly academic book attempting to get inside the heads of the Desert Fathers (and Mothers) to establish what they really thought they were doing with their lives and what their understanding of the scriptures had to do with it. ( )