Four Desert Fathers: Pambo, Evagrius, Macarius of Egypt & Macarius of Alexandria - Lives of Saints - Book

Author: Pambo, Evagrius, Macarius of Egypt & Macarius of Alexandria Translator: Tim Vivian Published: 2004 Size: 5x7.10 Pages: 202  Paperback Popular Patristics Series Volume 27 The four desert Fathers who gave their names to this volume - Pambo, Evagrius, Macarius of Egypt, and Macarius of Alexandria - were well known some 1600 years ago in Alexandria and the monastic communities of Lower Egypt. They were most famous, perhaps, because the monk (and later bishop) Palladius recounted their Lives - preserved in the Coptic Palladiana - in his Lausiac History.  The introduction describes the relationships among Palladius and Evagrius, Origenism, the spiritual and theological ramifications of the Anthropomorphite controversy, and subsequent effects on the Lausiac History and the four Coptic Lives of this volume. This work is a companion volume to Saint Macarius the Spirit Bearer, which contains the translations of three ancient texts: The Sayings of Saint Macarius of Egypt, The Virtue