The Book of the Elders - Sayings of the Desert Fathers person_St. Theophan the Recluse Seraphim’s Chinese philosophy teacher

Seraphim’s Chinese philosophy teacher

John of Kronstadt

This work is a concise and unequivocal Orthodox statement on contemporary trends

This book is an offering from Elder Vasileios to us

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The Book of the Elders - Sayings of the Desert Fathers person_St. Theophan the Recluse Seraphim’s Chinese philosophy teacherTranslated by John Wortley; Foreword by Bernard Flusin In the early part of the fourth century, a few Christians, mostly men and some women, began to withdraw from "the world" to retreat into the desert, there to practice their new religion more seriously. The person who aspired to "renounce the world" first had to find an "elder," a person who would accept him as a disciple and apprentice. To his elder (whom he would address as abbafather) the