Desert Mothers
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title:
Desert Mothers
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Desert Mothers is a neologism, coined in feminist theology as an analogy to Desert Fathers, for the ammas or female Christian ascetics living in the desert of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria in the 4th and 5th centuries AD. They typically lived in the monastic communities that began forming during that time, though sometimes they lived as hermits. Monastic communities acted collectively with limited outside relations with lay people. Some ascetics chose to venture into isolated locations to restrict
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Early Christian ascetics, 3rd–5th centuries AD
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Mothers
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2024-04-13T23:50:29Z
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