Exorcizing the Desert The stories of desert fathers' skirmishes with demons pointed to a larger struggle—and victory.
Diana Severance | October 1, 1999
The Best There Ever Was Modern Christian hermits still look to him for inspiration, as did the entire Middle Ages, but today we hardly know him. What did the illiterate recluse, known as Antony of the Desert, do to earn such adulation?
Mark Galli | October 1, 1999
The Life Changing "Life of Antony" Athanasius's biography was not only a bestseller in its day, but a book that made people stop and think—and act.
David Wright | October 1, 1999
Alone in the Desert? Why thousands of early Christians took up the monastic way.
James E. Goehring | October 1, 1999
Ascetic Agitators The early monks not only prayed in the desert but sometimes rioted in the cities.
Kenneth Calvert | October 1, 1999
Spiritual Pragmatists For the desert fathers, theology was not the study of God but the study of how to become like God.
Dennis D. Martin | October 1, 1999
Did the Exodus Never Happen? How two Egyptologists are countering scholars who want to turn the Old Testament into myth.
Kevin D. Miller | September 7, 1998
The Pentecostal Tradition A sampling of ecstatic experiences reported in different eras of church history
Stanley M. Burgess | April 1, 1998
The Spirit-Bearers If you know a little about Eastern monasticism, you know a great deal about Eastern Orthodoxy.
John Chryssavgis | April 1, 1997
EDITORIAL: Cairo’s Wake-up Call Although abortion was dealt a setback at the UN population conference, post-Christian values are gaining worldwide.
Nigel M. de S. Cameron | October 24, 1994
The Urge for Poverty Christian Asceticism from the Early Church Through the Reformation
Stephen Lang | July 1, 1988
