Stanford University Press/Stanford, California, 2013. — 179 p. Translator’s Note. Rule and Life . Birth of the Rule. Rule and Law. Flight from the World and Constitution. Threshold. Liturgy and Rule . Regula Vitae. Orality and Writing. The Rule as a Liturgical Text. Threshold. Form-of-Life . The Discovery of Life. Renouncing Law. Highest Poverty and Use. Threshold.
Oxford University Press, 1993. — 352 p. The growing scholarly attention in recent years to the religious world of late antiquity has focused new attention on the quest for holiness by the strange, compelling, often obscure early Christian monks known as the desert fathers. Yet until now, little attention has been given to one of the most vital dimensions of their spirituality:...
Westminster John Knox Press, 2006 (a reissue of the 1958 edition). — 372 p. — (The Library of Christian Classics). Students of church history and the monastic ascetic life will find this volume of much interest. Contained are three important documents of the early Christian Church: The Sayings of the Fathers, The Conferences of Cassian, and The Rule of Saint Benedict. Long...
Princeton University Press, 1999. — 360 p. A study of how asceticism was promoted through Biblical interpretation, Reading Renunciation uses contemporary literary theory to unravel the writing strategies of the early Christian authors. Not a general discussion of early Christian teachings on celibacy and marriage, the book is a close examination, in the author's words, of how...
Blackwell, 2001. — 288 p. This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of the emergence of monasticism from its roots in late antiquity and its transition to the early medieval West. Beginning with the search for individual perfection in the context of the religious and social climate of fourth-century Egypt, it traces the adoption and transformation of monastic...
University of California Press, 2000. — 235 p. — (Transformation of the Classical Heritage). Pilgrims in the deserts of Egypt and the holy land during the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. often reported visiting holy people as part of their tours of holy places. This is the first comprehensive study of pilgrimage to these famous ascetics of late antique Christianity. Through an...
Brill Academic Publishers, 1998. — 552 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 134). This volume deals with the origins and rise of Christian pilgrimage cults in late antique Egypt. Part One covers the major theoretical issues in the study of Coptic pilgrimage, such as sacred landscape and shrines' catchment areas, while Part Two examines native Egyptian and Egyptian Jewish...
Bégrolles-en-Mauges, 1979. — 239 p. — (Spiritualité orientale, n. 30). Table des matières: Avertissement Références originales des articles Antécédents du monachisme chrétien Formes du monachisme chrétien Témoins du monachisme chrétien Vue d'ensemble
Oxford University Press, Inc. 2004. — 488 p. 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...
Dekker en Van de Vegt, 1955. — 188 p. Latin texts. The Latin translation of Vita Antonii, the oldest evidence of western monasticism. The Monk and his dwelling. The Ascetic Life. Monastic perfection and the discernment of spirits. Mysticism. Monastic Latin and primitive western monasticism. Greek. Latin.
Routledge, 2016. — 418 p. This book looks at Eastern and Western monasticism’s continuous and intensive interactions with society in Eastern Europe, Russia and the Former Soviet Republics. It discusses the role monastics played in fostering national identities, as well as the potentiality of monasteries and religious orders to be vehicles of ecumenism and inter-religious...
Orbis Catholicus, Rome, 1956. — viii, 306 p. + 2 unnumbered pages. Latin, French, German, English, Italian languages; Studia Anselmiana philosophica theologica; Ex-Library; Vol. 38; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. G. Garitte, Le texte grec et les versions anciennes de la vie de saint Antoine L. von Härtling, Studien stories antoniani negli ultimi trent' anni Chr. Mohrmann, Note ur la version...
Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2011. — 238 p. Flourishing from the inland cities of Syria down through the Tigris and Euphrates valley, Syriac speakers in late antiquity created a new and often brilliant expression of Christian culture. Although the origins of their traditions are notoriously difficult to trace, authors of fourth-century Syrian...
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