Dorotheos of Gaza: Discourses and Sayings

Name: Dorotheos of Gaza: Discourses and Sayings
Price: 29.21 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780879079338

By: Eric P. Wheeler

Product Information

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Title: Dorotheos of Gaza: Discourses and Sayings
By: Eric P. Wheeler
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 259
Vendor: Cistercian Publications Inc
Publication Date: 2006

Dimensions: 8.48 X 6.80 X 0.55 (inches)
Weight: 11 ounces
ISBN: 0879079339
ISBN-13: 9780879079338
Series: Cistercian Studies
Stock No: WW079338

Publisher's Description

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A shrewd observer, a master psychologist, an accomplished raconteur, Dorotheos is also a learned man with a prodigious capacity for assimilating in an organized harmony the wisdom of his precedessors in the life of the Spirit. Yet he is far more interested in humbly serving his brethren than in discoursing about the recondite aspects of the hescyhast experience. His genial candor makes him the ideal spiritual master to introduce modern readers to the rich spiritual universe of the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria.

Editorial Reviews

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. . . no text I know renders the ascetic spirit more accessible to the modern reader.

Religious Studies Review

Dorotheos lets us glimpse a little of the life in his distant time and place . . . He doesn't write about theological abstractions, but about the passions and sins that every one of us recognizes in ourselves, monk or lay. We know what he is talking about.

Epiphany Journal