Talk:Desert Fathers

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Does anyone know the logical relationship between Desert Fathers and Sowha? Are they the same, or is one a subset of the other, or are they separated in history, or completely diffrent? I'll post this at both talk pages. Melchoir 09:50, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

I've never even heard of the Sowha (though, admittedly, my knowledge of Christian monastacism isn't flawless). The article on them is pretty sketchy, but it sounds like a modern sect of Coptic Christians. And, from looking at the review on Amazon.com, my assumption seems correct. I imagine the Sowha feel themselves to be successors of the desert fathers, but I don't think there's any real connection. -- Merope 13:41, 7 September 2006 (UTC)