Title: The book of steps
Description: "Intentionally anonymous and lacking concrete details of historical and cultural setting - and for many years suspected of messalianism - this collection of thirty memre [discourses] has been long recognized as an important, yet understudied work of the fourth-century Syriac Church." "The Liber Graduum records the ups and downs of a real christian community and is not a theoretical projection. The author meanders through many themes, but always calls readers back to the steps of Uprightness and Perfection."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Monasticism and religious orders, Spirituality, Early works to 1800, Christian life, Syriac literature, History, Monastic and religious life, Trappists, Cistercians, Catholicity, Syrian Church, Syriac Christians, Religious life, Liber graduum, Pastoral counseling, Syrian churches