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The Church Fathers · c. 550–565
The Discourses
Dorotheus of Gaza · c. 505–c. 565
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What it is
Seventeen talks to his own monks on humility, refusing to trust one's own judgement, and bearing with people — including the image of God as the centre of a circle from which all lives are radii.
Why it lasted
The gentlest and most psychologically acute of the monastic teachers, and required reading in Orthodox monasteries to this day.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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