Season 2, Epi 8: The Devil&The Desert Daddies - a podcast by Klaus Yoder & Travis Stevens

"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”

Further episodes of Seven Heads, Ten Horns: The History of the Devil

Further podcasts by Klaus Yoder & Travis Stevens

Website of Klaus Yoder & Travis Stevens