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Summary: Major disappointment
Review: This volume is a big let down, especially after having read 'Sayings' and 'Lives' of the Desert Fathers, which are both excellent and substantial.
The primary drawback is the length of the book, clocking in at a mere 47 pages. Not only does it lack just in pages, but some pages contain barely a few sentences!
This could be fine as a gift book as it has some nice examples on central christian themes and the presentation is of a high quality.
But for a serious spiritual study this is book is inadequate.
Spend your money on 'Sayings' instead which is just superb and has enough substance for years of meditation and thought.
'Lives' is also very interesting and epic.
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Summary: A Sanctifying verse : Wisdom of the Desert Fathers:
Review: When Evagrius Ponticus, asked Macarius for a word of wisdom, Abba Macarius replied; "Do not speak unless you are asked to!"
One verse of wisdom:
The Wisdom of the Desert Fathers focused on the request of a monastic novice pleading to an Elder; "Please give me a word of guidance." The novice asks one verse of the elder's insightful conception of the Good News of the one teacher, The Christ. I see that Benedicta Ward applies the spirit of the desert, intense wisdom.
Extra scoop of Desert wisdom?
"The Wisdom of the Desert Fathers Systematic Sayings from the Anonymous Series of the Apophthegmata Patrum," by the 'blessed' Anglican mother Ward and many other sources including writings by John Cassian, and Evagrius Ponticus may be helpful to the honest Amazon reviewer Peter. A treatise on the quest for holiness by the Desert fathers, is very thoroughly treated in D. Burton Christie's "The Word in the Desert."
Book Rating:
Although I totally agree with the reviewer who stated rightly that; "The primary drawback is the length of the book, clocking in at a mere 47 pages. Not only does it lack just in pages, but some pages contain barely a few sentences! This could be fine as a gift book as it has some nice examples on central Christian themes and the presentation is of a high quality."
Amazon has to add the number of pages within "Product Details". But, neither this lack of information, nor his own positive note on the quality justify his harsh under rating.
Rating:
Summary: A Sanctifying verse : Wisdom of the Desert Fathers:
Review: When Evagrius Ponticus, asked Macarius for a word of wisdom, Abba Macarius replied; "Do not speak unless you are asked to!"One verse of wisdom:
The Wisdom of the Desert Fathers focused on the request of a monastic novice pleading to an Elder; "Please give me a word of guidance." The novice asks one verse of the elder's insightful conception of the Good News of the one teacher, The Christ. I see that Benedicta Ward applies the spirit of the desert, intense wisdom. Extra scoop of Desert wisdom?
"The Wisdom of the Desert Fathers Systematic Sayings from the Anonymous Series of the Apophthegmata Patrum," by the 'blessed' Anglican mother Ward and many other sources including writings by John Cassian, and Evagrius Ponticus may be helpful to the honest Amazon reviewer Peter. A treatise on the quest for holiness by the Desert fathers, is very thoroughly treated in D. Burton Christie's "The Word in the Desert." Book Rating:
Although I totally agree with the reviewer who stated rightly that; "The primary drawback is the length of the book, clocking in at a mere 47 pages. Not only does it lack just in pages, but some pages contain barely a few sentences! This could be fine as a gift book as it has some nice examples on central Christian themes and the presentation is of a high quality."
Amazon has to add the number of pages within "Product Details". But, neither this lack of information, nor his own positive note on the quality justify his harsh under rating.
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