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Christian History, Issue 64, Fall 1999
Heroes & Leaders
'The Best There Ever Was'
Modern Christian hermits still look to him for inspiration, as did the entire Middle Ages. What did the illiterate recluse, known as Antony of the Desert, do to earn such adulation?
by Mark Galli
Also: The Life Changing "Life of Antony"
Exorcising the Desert
The stories of desert fathers' skirmishes with demons pointed to a larger struggle—and victory.
by Diana Severance
Alone in the Desert?
Why thousands of early Christians took up the monastic way, and what their life was really like.
by James E. Goehring
Also: Diet for a Large Soul
Ascetic Agitators
The early monks not only prayed in the desert but sometimes rioted in the cities.
by Kenneth Calvert
Also: Worldly Monk
Holy Land
Sabas just wanted to pray where Christ had lived and died but ended up establishing the most famous monastery in the Judean Desert.
by John Binn
The Gallery: Getting Their Act Together
Monasticism was more or less a solitary affair until these four came along and taught monks how to live in community.
by Columba Stewart, Frederica Mathewes-Green, and Marci Rae Johnson
Spiritual Pragmatists
For the desert fathers, theology was not the study of God but the study of how to become like God.
by Dennis D. Martin
LINK FORUM
Discovering The Desert Paradox
What so many in the early church found after they abandoned their loved ones and sought God in a seemingly God-forsaken landscape.
A conversation with Belden Lane
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