A course in desert spirituality: fifteen sessions with the famous Trappist monk

Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Editor’s Prologue; Preface; Lecture 1: Early Christian Spirituality (First and Second Centuries); Spirituality in the Age of the Martyrs; The Ideal of Virgins and Ascetes; Lecture 2: Aberrations in the Early Centuries; Hatred of the Flesh; Montanism; Neoplatonism; Gnosticism; Lecture 3: The Christian Teachers of Alexandria; Clement of Alexandria; Origen; Lecture 4: St. Anthony of the Desert; Enter St. Anthony; The Doctrine of Anthony; The Later Life of Anthony; Lecture 5: St. Pachomius and the Cenobites; Cenobites vs. Hermits