The Paradise of the Holy Fathers Volume I · The Lives of the Fathers
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
04.08.2026
Herausgeber
Rare Orthodox BooksVerlag
Independently PublishedSeitenzahl
460
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/2,9 cm
Gewicht
552 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798190693065
Enter the world of the Egyptian Desert Fathers, the men and women whose radical pursuit of prayer helped shape Christian monasticism.
Long before monasteries spread across the Christian world, seekers withdrew into the deserts of Egypt to confront temptation, cultivate unceasing prayer, practice mercy, and learn the freedom of a life wholly offered to God. Their struggles and wisdom became a spiritual inheritance shared by Christians for centuries.
The Paradise of the Holy Fathers preserves that inheritance through the Syriac collection associated with Anan-Isho, translated into English by E. A. Wallis Budge. This edition presents the complete first volume: the lives, histories, and monastic rules that provide the narrative foundation for the sayings gathered in Volume II.
Inside Volume I:
- E. A. Wallis Budge's historical introduction
- The Life of Saint Anthony, father of Christian monasticism
- Palladius's accounts of the holy men and women of the Egyptian desert
- The Rule of Saint Pachomius and the rise of communal monastic life
- The History of the Monks in Egypt
- Encounters with ascetics, hermits, anchorites, coenobites, bishops, pilgrims, and Desert Mothers
Inside this book are searching portraits of people learning to master anger, appetite, pride, distraction, despair, and the desire for recognition. Some lived alone; others built communities. Some taught through silence, some through hospitality, and some through spiritual counsel. Their circumstances are ancient, but their central questions remain immediate: How can the heart become still? What does true humility look like? How should a Christian respond to temptation? What is gained, and what must be surrendered, when a life is ordered entirely toward God?
Readers will meet Saint Anthony in his long warfare against the passions; Pachomius organizing an early form of common monastic life; Palladius recording the words and deeds of ascetics; and holy women whose discipline and discernment made them teachers in their own right. Together, these accounts reveal the Desert tradition not as an escape from spiritual struggle, but as a disciplined way of entering it with honesty, vigilance, prayer, and hope.
This reader's edition is designed for sustained reading and serious reference. Names and headings have been standardized for easier navigation, obvious defects inherited from early printing have been corrected, and complete scriptural quotations are supplied from the King James Version rather than silently paraphrased. The added guide and glossary help modern readers move through Budge's historical translation without flattening its antique character.
For readers of early Church history, Orthodox spirituality, the Philokalia, patristic literature, monastic rules, ascetic theology, and spiritual warfare.
This paperback contains Volume I only: The Lives of the Fathers. It is the first half of the coordinated Complete Two-Volume Edition from Rare Orthodox Books. Volume II contains the systematic collection of counsels and sayings.
Whether approached as history, spiritual reading, or a primary source for early monasticism, The Paradise of the Holy Fathers opens a treasury of Christian experience: severe yet humane, strange yet recognizable, uncompromising yet filled with compassion.
Begin with the lives. Enter the desert. Discover why the Fathers and Mothers still speak to the modern heart.
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