Pachomius

Author : Philip Rousseau
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520341692

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Pachomius by Philip Rousseau Pdf

Pachomius, who died in 346, has long been regarded as the "founder of monasticism." Available again, Philip Rousseau's careful reading of the available texts reveals that Pachomius's pioneering enterprise has been consistently misread in light of later monastic practices. Rousseau not only provides a fuller and more accurate portrait of this great teacher and spiritual director but also gives a new perspective on the development of monasticism. In a new preface Rousseau reviews the scholarly developments that have modified his views and emphases since the book was published. The result is to make Pachomius an even less assured pioneer, a man likely to have been more involved in the village and urban society of his time than previously thought.

Author : Harold W. Attridge,Gōhei Hata
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814323618

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Eusebius, Christianity, and Judaism by Harold W. Attridge,Gōhei Hata Pdf

Scholars of the history and literature of Christianity and Judaism explore the life and enduring contributions of Eusebius of Caesarea, an important writer and historian from the early fourth century. The essays focus on elements of the story that Eusebius tells the story of the early church, its re

Author : William Harmless
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0198036744

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Desert Christians by William Harmless Pdf

In the fourth century, the deserts of Egypt became the nerve center of a radical new movement, what we now call monasticism. Groups of Christians-from illiterate peasants to learned intellectuals-moved out to the wastelands beyond the Nile Valley and, in the famous words of Saint Athanasius, made the desert a city. In so doing, they captured the imagination of the ancient world. They forged techniques of prayer and asceticism, of discipleship and spiritual direction, that have remained central to Christianity ever since. Seeking to map the soul's long journey to God and plot out the subtle vagaries of the human heart, they created and inspired texts that became classics of Western spirituality. These Desert Christians were also brilliant storytellers, some of Christianity's finest. This book introduces the literature of early monasticism. It examines all the best-known works, including Athanasius' Life of Antony, the Lives of Pachomius, and the so-called Sayings of the Desert Fathers. Later chapters focus on two pioneers of monastic theology: Evagrius Ponticus, the first great theoretician of Christian mysticism; and John Cassian, who brought Egyptian monasticism to the Latin West. Along the way, readers are introduced to path-breaking discoveries-to new texts and recent archeological finds-that have revolutionized contemporary scholarship on monastic origins. Included are fascinating snippets from papyri and from little-known Coptic, Syriac, and Ethiopic texts. Interspersed in each chapter are illustrations, maps, and diagrams that help readers sort through the key texts and the richly-textured world of early monasticism. Geared to a wide audience and written in clear, jargon-free prose, Desert Christians offers the most comprehensive and accessible introduction to early monasticism.

Author : Richard Valantasis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0691057516

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Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice by Richard Valantasis Pdf

This book is a collection of nearly seventy Late Antique primary religious texts that constitute a comprehensive view of religious practice in Late Antiquity. This sourcebook includes discussions of asceticism, religious organization, ritual, martyrdom ...

Author : David Brakke
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0674018753

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Demons and the Making of the Monk by David Brakke Pdf

Demons--whether in embodied form or as inward temptation--make vivid appearances in early Christian monastic literature. In this finely written study of demonology and Christian spirituality in fourth- and fifth-century Egypt, David Brakke examines how the conception of the monk as a holy and virtuous being was shaped by the combative encounter with demons. Brakke studies the "making of the monk" from two perspectives. First, he describes the social and religious identities that monastic authors imagined for the demon-fighting monk: the new martyr who fights against the pagan gods, the gnostic who believes he knows both the tricks of the demons and the secrets of God, and the prophet who discerns the hidden presence of Satan even among good Christians. Then he employs recent theoretical ideas about gender and racial stereotyping to interpret accounts of demon encounters, especially those in which demons appear as the Other--as Ethiopians, as women, or as pagan gods. Drawing on biographies of exceptional monks, collections of monastic sayings and stories, letters from ascetic teachers to their disciples, sermons, and community rules, Brakke crafts a compelling picture of the embattled religious celibate. Demons and the Making of the Monk is an insightful and innovative exploration of the development of Christian monasticism.

Author : Armand Veilleux
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Christian literature, Early
ISBN : UOM:39015018626716

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Pachomian Koinonia: The life of Saint Pachomius and his disciples by Armand Veilleux Pdf

Author : Marilyn Dunn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1405106417

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The Emergence of Monasticism by Marilyn Dunn Pdf

The Emergence of Monasticism offers a new approach to the subject, placing its development against the dynamic of both social and religious change. First study in any language to cover the formative period of medieval monasticism. Gives particular attention to the contribution of women to ascetic and monastic life.

Author : James E. Goehring
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1563382695

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Ascetics, Society, and the Desert by James E. Goehring Pdf

Through rigorous examination of papyrological documentary sources, archaeology, and traditional literary sources, James Goehring gradually forces a new direction in understanding the evolution of monasticism. He ably transforms these sources into a clear narrative, thereby infusing the history of Egyptian monasticism with renewed energy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Biography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039302497

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Instructions, Letters, and Other Writings of Saint Pachomius and His Disciples by Anonim Pdf

Author : David M. Gwynn
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199210954

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Athanasius of Alexandria by David M. Gwynn Pdf

A bishop and theologian, an ascetic and a pastoral father, Athanasius of Alexandria (c.295-373) is one of the greatest and most controversial figures of early Christian history. This book draws together these diverse yet inseparable roles that defined Athanasius' life and the influence that he exerted on subsequent Christian tradition.

Author : Laurie Guy
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830877973

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Introducing Early Christianity by Laurie Guy Pdf

The life and times of the early church were every bit as exciting as our own. But the living pulse of early Christian life, worship and controversy is too often submerged beneath the text of standard introductions to early Christian history. Here from Laurie Guy is an introduction to Christianity of the first four centuries that is readable but not lightweight, interesting but not superficial, informative but not technical. It is a welcome supplement to chronological histories of the early church, a vantage point from which readers may sit aloft and view the broad patterns in the historical terrain. From the apostolic fathers to the great ecumenical councils, we see the church undergoing persecution and martyrdom and then rising to favor under Constantine, shaping its ministry and order while worshiping and developing its understanding of doctrine. Baptism and Eucharist, asceticism and monasticism, and the developing roles of women unfold in this thematic account of the rise of Great Tradition Christianity. Richly illustrated and filled out with maps, charts and close-up windows on related topics, Introducing Early Christianity will inform the curious and enliven courses in early church history.

Author : Andrew Crislip
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780812207200

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Thorns in the Flesh by Andrew Crislip Pdf

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 : George Herring
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0826467377

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An Introduction to the History of Christianity by George Herring Pdf

Examines the interaction between Christianity and the secular world, covering four major periods in Christian history: The Imperial Church (300-500); the Medieval Church (1050-1250); the Reformation Church (1450-1650); and the Modern Church (1800-2000).

Author : Todd Klutz,Casey Strine,Jessica M. Keady
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567684998

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Scripture as Social Discourse by Todd Klutz,Casey Strine,Jessica M. Keady Pdf

Throughout the last several decades professional biblical scholars have adapted concepts and theories from the social sciences – particularly social and cultural anthropology – in order to cast new light on ancient biblical writings, early Jewish and Christian texts that circulated with the Scriptures, and the various contexts in which these literatures were produced and first received. The present volume of essays draws much of its inspiration from that same development in the history of biblical research, while also offering insights from other, newer approaches to interpretation. The contributors to this volume explore a wide range of broadly social-scientific disciplines and discourses – cultural anthropology, sociology, archaeology, political science, the New Historicism, forced migration studies, gender studies – and provide multiple examples of the ways in which these diverse methods and theories can shed new and often fascinating light on the ancient texts. The fruit of scholarly work that is both international in flavour and truly collaborative, this volume provides fresh perspectives not only on familiar portions of Jewish and Christian Scripture but also on select passages from the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Nag Hammadi library and previously untranslated French texts.

Author : David Hellholm,Tor Vegge,Øyvind Norderval,Christer Hellholm
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 2089 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110247534

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Ablution, Initiation, and Baptism by David Hellholm,Tor Vegge,Øyvind Norderval,Christer Hellholm Pdf

In the web of cultural processes of late antiquity ablution rites and initiation rites were performed in different forms and in different contexts. Such rites existed in Early Judaism and Greco-Roman cults and were also applied in early Christianity under the label “baptism”, however, not as one fixed rite uniformly performed and interpreted. Baptismal rites developed diversely corresponding to the diversity among Christian groups of which some later came to be perceived as heretical. Remains of art, architecture and texts from these contexts were discussed in two conferences gathering scholars who are excellent within their respective fields: text studies, studies of rites, archaeology, architecture, history of art, and cultural anthropology. These different fields of research have in recent years generated new knowledge that is relevant for the discussion of ablution and initiation rites and their function in late antiquity. At the same time interests of research have altered in favour of a growing cooperation across discipline borders. The present volumes are the outcome of two conferences in Rome 2008 and at Metochi (Lesbos) 2009.