Like a Pelican in the Wilderness: Reflections on the Sayings of the Desert Fathers
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1885652402
ISBN 13
9781885652409
Category
Spiritual
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Publication Year
2000
Publisher
Pages
284
Description
Like a Pelican in the Wilderness is a dialogue with the teachings of the desert fathers, to see what light they can shed on some of the central theological issues of today. These issues deal with the meaning of eschatological time, with what it is to live in the perspective of the telos, with how transparency and openness are to be attained, with the nature of personhood as the goal of human existence. Antony, Macarius, Arsenius, and many others went into the desert to strip themselves down to the essential core of their being so that they could be transformed by God. Even if we cannot imitate them, they have much to teach us. - From the preface by Norman Russell - from Amzon
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1
