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Desert father : a journey in the wilderness with Saint Anthony / James Cowan.
Van Pelt Library BR1720.A6 C69 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cowan, James, 1942-2018.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthony, of Egypt, Saint, approximately 250-355 or 356.
- Anthony.
- Physical Description:
- 240 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Shambhala : Distributed in the United States by Random House, 2004.
- Summary:
- In the spirit of Elaine Pagel's "Beyond Belief" comes a deeply personal journey into the heart of the original "Desert Father," and into the spirit of first-millennium Christianity.
- Contents:
- Toward the inner mountain
- Welcome, the stranger
- Life of an Anchorite
- Citizen of heaven
- The law of promise
- A wordless journey
- Crossing the border
- Eye of the ostrich
- In the crucible of fire
- The lion's mouth
- Conversations in the desert
- Garnering the pearl
- The parting.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-240).
- ISBN:
- 1590301455
- OCLC:
- 53953442
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