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An Introduction to the Desert Fathers John Meese Author/Artist:Leo Goeke|Felicity Lott|Elisabeth Conquet|Benjamin Luxon|ThomasChristian monasticism emerged in the Egyptian deserts in the fourth century AD. This introduction explores its origins and subsequent development and what it aimed to achieve, including the obstacles that it encountered; for the most part making use of the monks' own words as they are preserved (in Greek) primarily in the so called Sayings of the Desert Fathers. Mainly focussing on monastic settlements in the Nitrian Desert (especially at Sct), it