The Monastic School Of Gaza
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Author | : Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2006-02-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9047408446 |
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The book deals with the history of the monastic community in the region of Gaza in Late antiquity. It examines the monastic career and teachings of central figures such as Abba Isaiah, Peter the Iberian, Barsanuphius and John, and Dorotheus. The social, religious and material aspects of this community are discussed in comparison with other contemporary monastic centers.
Author | : Kyle A. Schenkewitz |
Publisher | : American University Studies |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Healing |
ISBN | : 9781433132216 |
Download Dorotheos of Gaza and the Discourse of Healing in Gazan Monasticism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Serving as a dynamic figure in the monastic school, Dorotheos of Gaza transformed the traditional understanding of healing in the spiritual life. Gazan monastic teachers, Isaiah of Scetis, Barsanuphius, John, and Dorotheos, utilized this discourse of healing to instruct and guide their followers in the monastic life. As a predominant part of human existence, sickness and suffering were sought to be understood and interpreted. For some teachers, healing was purely a metaphor for spiritual renewal brought about through illness and pain. For others, physical distress was instructive for renewed endurance and trust. Driven by a new distinction, Dorotheos pursued the concept of healing as an extension beyond the metaphor and into the physical reality experienced in the body. Encouraging his followers to pursue this idea, he further developed the importance of healing in his tradition by emphasizing the significance of physical and spiritual well-being. The life of healing he envisioned was a life full of virtue, carefully navigating all disruptions of life, and strengthening the soul and the body.
Author | : Lillian I. Larsen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2018-08-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108168841 |
Download Monastic Education in Late Antiquity Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In re-examining the Christianization of the Roman Empire and subsequent transformation of Graeco-Roman classical culture, this volume challenges conventional ways of understanding both the history of Christian monasticism and the history of education. The chapters interrogate assumptions that have framed monastic practice as pedagogically unprecedented, with few obvious precursors and/or parallels. A number explore how both teaching and practice merge classical pedagogical structures with Christian sources and traditions. Others re-situate monasticism within a longer trajectory of educational and institutional frameworks, elucidating models that remain central to the preservation of both Greek and Latin literary culture, and the skills of reading and writing. Through re-examination of archaeological evidence and critical re-reading of signature monastic texts, each documents the degree to which monastic structures emerged in close alignment with urban, literate society, and retain established affinity with classical rhetorical and philosophical school traditions.
Author | : Jennifer L. Hevelone-Harper |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2005-07-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801881107 |
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Author | : Martin C. Albl |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2024-03-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004693092 |
Download The Catena to James Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Catena to James (compiled ca. 700 CE) collected excerpts from the best ancient Greek commentaries on the Letter of James, ranging from Origen to Maximus the Confessor. This translation and commentary make the whole Catena available for the first time in a modern language. An extensive introduction locates the Catena both in its own historical and literary context and in the context of modern catena studies. The detailed commentary elucidates the wide-ranging and sophisticated nature of the philological, historical-critical, rhetorical, ethical, theological, and pastoral insights of these ancient readers of James.
Author | : Lillian I. Larsen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2018-08-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107194954 |
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Redefines the role assigned education in the history of monasticism, by re-situating monasticism in the history of education.
Author | : Timothy John Pelletier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1931 |
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Author | : Guy G. Stroumsa |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2016-11-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0674974867 |
Download The Scriptural Universe of Ancient Christianity Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The passage of texts from scroll to codex created a revolution in the religious life of late antiquity. It played a decisive role in the Roman Empire’s conversion to Christianity and eventually enabled the worldwide spread of Christian faith. The Scriptural Universe of Ancient Christianity describes how canonical scripture was established and how scriptural interpretation replaced blood sacrifice as the central element of religious ritual. Perhaps more than any other cause, Guy G. Stroumsa argues, the codex converted the Roman Empire from paganism to Christianity. The codex permitted a mode of religious transmission across vast geographical areas, as sacred texts and commentaries circulated in book translations within and beyond Roman borders. Although sacred books had existed in ancient societies, they were now invested with a new aura and a new role at the core of religious ceremony. Once the holy book became central to all aspects of religious experience, the floodgates were opened for Greek and Latin texts to be reimagined and repurposed as proto-Christian. Most early Christian theologians did not intend to erase Greek and Roman cultural traditions; they were content to selectively adopt the texts and traditions they deemed valuable and compatible with the new faith, such as Platonism. The new cultura christiana emerging in late antiquity would eventually become the backbone of European identity.
Author | : Andrew Crislip |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2012-09-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0812207203 |
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The literature of late ancient Christianity is rich both in saints who lead lives of almost Edenic health and in saints who court and endure horrifying diseases. In such narratives, health and illness might signify the sanctity of the ascetic, or invite consideration of a broader theology of illness. In Thorns in the Flesh, Andrew Crislip draws on a wide range of texts from the fourth through sixth centuries that reflect persistent and contentious attempts to make sense of the illness of the ostensibly holy. These sources include Lives of Antony, Paul, Pachomius, and others; theological treatises by Basil of Caesarea and Evagrius of Pontus; and collections of correspondence from the period such as the Letters of Barsanuphius and John. Through close readings of these texts, Crislip shows how late ancient Christians complicated and critiqued hagiographical commonplaces and radically reinterpreted illness as a valuable mode for spiritual and ascetic practice. Illness need not point to sin or failure, he demonstrates, but might serve in itself as a potent form of spiritual practice that surpasses even the most strenuous of ascetic labors and opens up the sufferer to a more direct knowledge of the self and the divine. Crislip provides a fresh and nuanced look at the contentious and dynamic theology of illness that emerged in and around the ascetic and monastic cultures of the later Roman world.
Author | : Saint Sophronius (Patriarch of Jerusalem) |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2009-01-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199546932 |
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Sophronius' Synodical Letter was was read out at the Sixth Ecumenical Council in 680-1, and provided the only sustained rebuttal of the monoenergist doctrine. This is the first publication of the letter in annotated translation alongside the original Greek. Includes a comprehensive introduction and further documents on the monoenergist doctrine.