How the Desert Fathers “Meditated”

• Main Author: John Wortley
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Duke University 2010-11-01
• Series: Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
• Online Access: http://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/531
• ISSN: 0017-3916; 2159-3159

<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">Various passages of the</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><em>Apophthegmata Patrum</em></span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">, in describing the</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><em>melete</em></span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">of the Desert Fathers, make clear that this was not modern (silent) "meditation" but viva voce.</span>