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The Book of Mystical Chapters: Meditations on the Soul's Ascent, from the Desert Fathers and Other Early Christian Contemplatives Paperback - 2003
by John Anthony McGuckin
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- Title The Book of Mystical Chapters: Meditations on the Soul's Ascent, from the Desert Fathers and Other Early Christian Contemplatives
- Author John Anthony McGuckin
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First edition th
- Condition New
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Shambhala, Boston
- Date 2003-07-08
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # ria9781590300077_pod
- ISBN 9781590300077 / 1590300076
- Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 8.38 x 5.47 x 0.61 in (21.29 x 13.89 x 1.55 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress subjects Spiritual life - Christianity, Desert Fathers
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001057553
- Dewey Decimal Code 248.481
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The early Christian monks of Egypt, Syria, and Palestine were the spiritual heroes of their age-fleeing the security of civilization for the desert, where they sought God in lives of prayer, contemplation, and radical simplicity. This book is a portable collection of their teachings, and those of their contemplative contemporaries, ranging from the fourth through the eleventh centuries. It is arranged to the traditional model of three ascending "books": "Praktikos (practice), "Theoretikos (theory), and "Gnosis (knowledge). Each book consists of 100 "sentences"-aphorisms or thoughts. Each sentence is intended to be read and meditated upon for an entire day-just as the monks themselves might have done as they went about their work.
