Prayer & monastic life
The desert, the cell, and the hymn: monks, hermits, and the prayers of the early and medieval Church.
Key terms: προσευχή (proseuche), oratio, μοναχός (monachos), contemplatio, asceticus — the Day 14 terms index will link each term to its occurrences across the corpus.
- Against the Gentiles (Contra Gentes)
- Four Discourses Against the Arians
- Life of St. Anthony
- On the Incarnation of the Word
- Against Eunomius
- Funeral Oration on Meletius
- Letters
- Life of St. Macrina
- On Virginity
- On the Baptism of Christ
- On the Faith
- On the Making of Man
- The Great Catechism
- On the Priesthood
- Holy Sonnets
- Lausiac History
- On the Contemplative Life, or on the Virtues of Suppliants
Athanasius
Gregory of Nyssa
John Chrysostom
John Donne
Palladius
Philo of Alexandria