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Histories of the Monks of Upper Egypt ; And, The Life of Onnophrius

Saint Paphnutius (anchorite)

出版	Cistercian Publications, 1993
主題	Biography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / ReligiousHistory / Middle East / EgyptReligion / Christianity / HistoryReligion / Monasticism
ISBN	087907440X9780879074401
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ylbZAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

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, uncompromising 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.