Discourses and Sayings
Dorotheos of Gaza author Eric Wheeler, OSB translator Chrysogonus Waddell, OCSO editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Liturgical Press
Published:1st Nov '77
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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 predecessors 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 candour makes him the ideal spiritual master to introduce modern readers to the rich spiritual universe of the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria.
. . . 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
ISBN: 9780879079338
Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
Weight: 425g
259 pages