Season 2, Epi 8: The Devil & The Desert Daddies

"We are their bodies," one monk admitted.

This week Klaus and Travis examine the practical knowledge the first generations of Christian monks developed for identifying and combatting their demons and the devil himself.

Sources:

Life of Ant(h)ony by Athanasius

David Brakke, Demons and the Making of the Monk : Spiritual Combat in Early Christianity (Also check ProQuest.)

John Cassian, Institutes, Book X

Andrew Crisplin, “The Sin of Sloth or the Illness of the Demons? The Demon of Acedia in Early Christian Monasticism”

Excerpts of Evagrius’ Praktikos

Shenoute the Great, “Because of You too, O Prince of Evil”