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

<p>"We are their bodies," one monk admitted. </p><p><br></p><p>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. </p><p><br></p><p><span>Sources:</span></p><p><a href="newadvent.org/fathers/2811.htm"; rel="nofollow">Life of Ant(h)ony by Athanasius</a></p><p><a href="hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674018754…; rel="nofollow">David Brakke, <em>Demons and the Making of the Monk : Spiritual Combat in Early Christianity</em></a><span> (Also check ProQuest.)</span></p><p><a href="newadvent.org/fathers/350710.htm"; rel="nofollow">John Cassian, <em>Institutes</em>, Book X</a></p><p><span>Andrew Crisplin, </span><a href="jstor.org/stable/4125242"; rel="nofollow">“The Sin of Sloth or the Illness of the Demons? The Demon of Acedia in Early Christian Monasticism</a><span>”</span></p><p><span>Excerpts of </span><a href="web.archive.org/web/20120428133436/http://www.…; rel="nofollow">Evagrius’ <em>Praktikos</em></a></p><p><a href="cambridge.org/core/books/selected-discourses-o…; rel="nofollow">Shenoute the Great, “Because of You too, O Prince of Evil”</a></p><p><br></p>