Huffington Ecumenical Institute and Pappas Patristic Institute Present Douglas E. Christie's “Night in the Desert: An Ancient Monastic Ecology of Darkness”

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“The hesychia of the night is enough for us if our thoughts are wakeful towards God.” This saying from the Apophthegmata Patrum suggests the importance of the night in early Christian monastic experience. This talk will consider the meaning of night in the desert as early Christian monks lived and imagined it.