Publisher's Synopsis
The late Derwas J. Chitty translated into English seven letters addressed by Saint Antony the Solitary to his disciples. They centre our attention on those things which are essential in the spiritual life. As the reader ponders the text the dominant themes reveal themselves: the witness of the Holy Spirit; the need to attain self-knowledge and the gift of repentance to enter into the fullness of the Church's life; and our mutual coinherence as members of the Body of Christ. 'We are listening here,' says Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia in his Foreword, 'to the authentic voice of desert spirituality.'
