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ORIGINS                           MONASTICISM AND THE DESERT           THIS LAND

THE DESERT                                                        img2.jpg (9205 bytes)                               CHALLENGE   

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RIGINS - Egypt, Palestine, Asia Minor

The Egyptian desert has seen an outstanding reflourishing of this spirituality in the past few decades.

THE DESERT

THIS LAND

THE CHALLENGE
  "Hoping, if still from deserts the prophets come
  Such savage and scarlet as no green hills dare
  Springs in this waste ....."   (A.D.Hope)

cf. M. Kelly, "The Challenge of the Interior: Monasticism and the Desert in an Australian Context", Compass 35(2001)3 pp.32-38.

 

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