Tuesday, February 1, 2022

St. Catherine's Monastery Mount Sinai, 6th century

Read before class:

• Athanasius, Life of Anthony (WCH 131-44 – intro, ch. 1-5, 8-10, 14, 44-47, 50, 69-73, 81, 87, 93)
• Basil, Longer Rule (WCH 144-47)
• Benedict, The Rule of St. Benedict (Introduction to Contemporary Civilization in the West, hereafter referred to as “ICCW” 175-89)
• Selections from the Desert Fathers and the Cistercians (CP 10-12)