The Desert a City it is a real attempt

it is a real attempt to grapple with the true God

and on the chief errors that have sought to change or undermine this veneration: both ancient heresies and the later deviations of Western Christendom

and Dismissal) for completing the services sung throughout the year

the Lives of the Saints

Completing the three-volume collection

The Desert a City it is a real attemptDerwas Chitty The story of the development of desert monasticism in the early centuries of the Church's life, told with attention to scholarly detail, and yet with a passionate concern for the story which removes the book far from the dry and dusty character of too much "history". Paperbound