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The Church Fathers · c. 380–430
The Book of Steps
Liber Graduum
Anonymous
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What it is
Thirty discourses distinguishing the upright, who keep the commandments while married and working, from the perfect, who renounce everything — and insisting both are genuinely Christian.
Why it lasted
The most interesting early attempt to hold together two levels of Christian life without dismissing the ordinary one.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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