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THIS IS HOW I TRY TO LIVE...EPICUREAN LIKE THE PHILOSOPHERS OF ARCHAIC GREECE.
The Desert Fathers were Hermits, Ascetics and Monks who lived mainly in the Scetes desert of Egypt, beginning around the third century CE. They were the first Christian hermits, who abandoned the cities of the pagan world to live in solitude. These original desert hermits were Christians fleeing the chaos and persecution of the Roman Empire's Crisis of the Third Century. They were men who did not believe in letting themselves be passively guided and ruled by a decadent state.(DECADENT STATE...SOUND FAMILIAR ???) Christians were often scapegoated during these times of unrest, and near the end of the century, the Diocletianic Persecution was more severe and systematic. In Egypt, refugee communities formed at the edges of population centers, far enough away to be safe from Imperial scrutiny.
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"Believing Christians should look upon themselves as such a creative minority and ... espouse once again the best of its heritage, thereby being at the service of humankind at large." --Joseph Ratzinger
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ReplyDeleteInteresting stuff on the "Desert Fathers". I was in a doctor's office a few years ago and read an article in Time about how all the varying religions were formed. It included a schematic that began with ONE church and had all of the different faiths that had branched off.
The Original Church, as we know, was the Catholic Church, which spawned the Methodists, and then on from there. Wish I could find the article so I could post it ..., maybe I'll bing or Google and come up with it!
Love and Blessings,
Abbey ♥