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In the fourth century, the wildernesses of Egypt and Palestine were inhabited by a strange breed of spiritual nonconformists: the first Christian hermits. Thomas Merton's affection for these "Desert Fathers" shines in this much-loved treasury of their acts and words of wisdom. His free translation from the Latin source Verba Senorium illuminates their radical lives with insight and humor and sets them in close relation to Zen recluses, Hindu renunciants, and all those who have ever fled conventi
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- Author
- Merton, Thomas
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Published
- 1970
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781590300398
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Christian, Literary Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.12 / 5 (1,089 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- The Wisdom of the desert : sayings from the Desert Fathers of the fourth century (1970)
- The Wisdom of the desert : sayings from the Desert Fathers of the fourth century (2013)
- The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century (Shambhala Library) (2004)
- The wisdom of the desert : sayings from the Desert Fathers of the fourth century (1974)
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