Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks-and What It Can Teach Us
Author: Kim Haines-Eitzen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 168 Enduring lessons from the desert soundscapes that shaped the Christian monastic tradition. For the hermits and communal monks of antiquity, the desert was a place to flee the cacophony of ordinary life in order to hear and contemplate the voice of God. But these monks discovered something surprising in their harsh desert surroundings: far from empty and silent, the desert is richly reverberant. Sonorous Desert shares the stories and sayings of...
Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks-and What It Can Teach Us