The Text of a Coptic Monastic Discourse On Love and Self-Control: Its Story from the Fourth Century to the Twenty-First 159.99 because the monk (and later

because the monk (and later bishop) Palladius recounted their Lives - preserved in the Coptic Palladiana - in his Lausiac History

From the author of The Scent of Holiness

and is Dean of St Athanasius College in Melbourne

It is imperative that we do not fail in doing good

The Text of a Coptic Monastic Discourse On Love and Self-Control: Its Story from the Fourth Century to the Twenty-First 159.99 because the monk (and later"Sugg. Donation" This book introduces a beautiful fourth century Coptic discourse on love and self control in its first English translation. The text's heading attributes it to Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, but this attribution is questionable. Exploring issues of authorship and context, this book locates the origins of On Love and Self Control in the Upper Egyptian Pachomian monastic community of the mid fourth century. It then traces the various