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Book Palladius  the Lausiac History

Download or read book Palladius the Lausiac History written by Palladius (Bishop of Aspuna) and published by The Newman Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palladius has written an important history of early monasticism in Egypt with these biographic sketches or notes on some sixty holy men and women he had met or heard of. The work, dating from 419 or 420, is dedicated to Lausus, the royal chamberlain at the court of Emperor Theodosius II.

Book The Lausiac History of Palladius

Download or read book The Lausiac History of Palladius written by Palladius and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published 1898-1904, this two-volume work includes Palladius' Greek text, critical notes and further discussion of Egyptian monasticism.

Book Cambridge History of Christianity  Volume 1  Origins to Constantine

Download or read book Cambridge History of Christianity Volume 1 Origins to Constantine written by Margaret M. Mitchell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catherine Michael Chin
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2024-03-26
  • ISBN : 0520400674
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Life written by Catherine Michael Chin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid and intimate glimpse of ancient life under the sway of cosmic and spiritual forces that the modern world has forgotten. Life immerses the reader in the cosmic sea of existences that made up the late ancient Mediterranean world. Loosely structured around events in the biography of one early Christian writer and traveler, this book weaves together the philosophical, religious, sensory, and scientific worlds of the later Roman Empire to tell the story of how human lives were lived under different natural and spiritual laws than those we now know today. This book takes a highly literary and sensory approach to its subject, evoking an imagined experience of an ancient natural and supernatural world, rather than merely explaining ancient thought about the natural world. It mixes visual and literary genres to give the reader a sensory and affective experience of a thought-world that is very different from our own. An experimental intellectual history, Life invites readers into the premodern cosmos to experience a world that is at once familiar, strange, and deeply compelling.

Book Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents

Download or read book Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents written by John Philip Thomas and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 2000 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of the typkia, discussed by John Thomas in the introduction, was one of flexible and personal documents, which differed considerably in form, length, and content. Not all of them were foundation documents in the strict sense, since they could be issued at any time in the history of an institution. Some were wills; others were reform decrees and rules; yet others were primarily liturgical in character.

Book Celibate Marriages in Late Antique and Byzantine Hagiography

Download or read book Celibate Marriages in Late Antique and Byzantine Hagiography written by Anne P. Alwis and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the phenomenon of celibate marriages in Byzantine hagiography.

Book The Expository Times

Download or read book The Expository Times written by James Hastings and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin

    Book Details:
  • Author : University of St. Andrews. Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1906
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 608 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by University of St. Andrews. Library and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Corporeal Imagination

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  • Author : Patricia Cox Miller
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2012-02-28
  • ISBN : 0812204689
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book The Corporeal Imagination written by Patricia Cox Miller and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With few exceptions, the scholarship on religion in late antiquity has emphasized its tendencies toward transcendence, abstraction, and spirit at the expense of matter. In The Corporeal Imagination, Patricia Cox Miller argues instead that ancient Christianity took a material turn between the fourth and seventh centuries. During this period, Miller contends, there occurred a major shift in the ways in which the human being was oriented in relation to the divine, a shift that reconfigured the relationship between materiality and meaning in a positive direction. The Corporeal Imagination is a groundbreaking investigation into the theological poetics of material substance in late ancient Christian texts. From hagiographies to literary descriptions of sacred paintings to treatises on relics and theurgy, Miller examines a wide variety of ancient texts to reveal how Christian writers increasingly described the matter of the world as invested with divine power. By appealing to the reader's sensory imagination, Christian texts endowed phenomena like relics, saints' bodies in hagiography, and saints' presence in icons with a visual and tactile presence. The book draws on a variety of contemporary theoretical models to elucidate the significance of all these materials in ancient religious life and imagination.

Book Ezekiel  Daniel

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kenneth Stevenson
  • Publisher : InterVarsity Press
  • Release : 2014-02-19
  • ISBN : 0830897380
  • Pages : 443 pages

Download or read book Ezekiel Daniel written by Kenneth Stevenson and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The books of Ezekiel and Daniel are rich in imagery that is taken up afresh in the New Testament. It is no wonder these books, despite the difficulties in interpreting them, took hold on the imagination of the early church. In this ACCS volume, over forty church fathers are cited and four extant works are included, providing a wealth of insight.

Book Institutes of ecclesiastical history ancient and modern

Download or read book Institutes of ecclesiastical history ancient and modern written by John Lawrence Von Mosheim and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-07-30 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

Book Angels in Late Ancient Christianity

Download or read book Angels in Late Ancient Christianity written by Ellen Muehlberger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellen Muehlberger explores the diverse and inventive ideas Christians held about angels in late antiquity. During the fourth and fifth centuries, Christians began experimenting with new modes of piety, adapting longstanding forms of public authority to Christian leadership and advancing novel ways of cultivating body and mind to further the progress of individual Christians. Muehlberger argues that in practicing these new modes of piety, Christians developed new ways of thinking about angels. The book begins with a detailed examination of the two most popular discourses about angels that developed in late antiquity. In the first, developed by Christians cultivating certain kinds of ascetic practices, angels were one type of being among many in a shifting universe, and their primary purpose was to guard and to guide Christians. In the other, articulated by urban Christian leaders in contest with one another, angels were morally stable characters described in the emerging canon of Scripture, available to enable readers to render Scripture coherent with emerging theological positions. Muehlberger goes on to show how these two discourses did not remain isolated in separate spheres of cultivation and contestation, but influenced one another and the wider Christian culture. She offers in-depth analysis of popular biographies written in late antiquity, of the community standards of emerging monastic communities, and of the training programs developed to prepare Christians to participate in ritual, demonstrating that new ideas about angels shaped and directed the formation of the definitive institutions of late antiquity. Angels in Late Ancient Christianity is a meticulous and thorough study of early Christian ideas about angels, but it also offers a different perspective on late ancient Christian history, arguing that angels were central rather than peripheral to the emergence of Christian institutions and Christian culture in late antiquity.

Book Patrology  The Golden age of Greek Patristic Literature

Download or read book Patrology The Golden age of Greek Patristic Literature written by Johannes Quasten and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lectures on the Psalms

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  • Author : Didymus
  • Publisher : InterVarsity Press
  • Release : 2024-03-05
  • ISBN : 1514006057
  • Pages : 507 pages

Download or read book Lectures on the Psalms written by Didymus and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of his career, early Christian theologian Didymus the Blind wrote numerous theological treatises and exegetical works. This ACT volume presents Didymus's lectures on portions of the Psalms as they were originally presented to his students, allowing us to learn at Didymus's feet and find comfort in the Word of God.

Book Studia patristica

Download or read book Studia patristica written by Elizabeth A. Livingstone and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented to the International Conference on Patristic Studies. 2d- 1955-

Book Speaking in Tongues  A Critical Historical Examination  Volume 2

Download or read book Speaking in Tongues A Critical Historical Examination Volume 2 written by Philip E. Blosser and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In three carefully researched volumes, this ground-breaking study examines the gift of tongues through two thousand years of church history. Starting in the present and working back in time, these volumes consider (1) the modern redefinition of “tongues” as a private prayer language; (2) the church’s perennial understanding of “tongues” as ordinary human languages; and (3) the Corinthian “tongues,” which, in light of Jewish liturgical tradition, turn out to have been a Semitic liturgical language requiring bilingual interpreters. This second volume tracks the perception and practice of tongues back through the first eighteen hundred years of church history, demonstrating that “tongue-speaking” was always active but puzzlingly different from today’s glossolalia. From Pope Benedict XIV’s detailed treatise in the 1700s, it works back through long-forgotten scholastic and patristic debates to the earliest Christian writers such as Irenaeus. No other resource on the subject approaches the depth and scope of the present volume.

Book That Gentle Strength

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  • Author : Lynda L. Coon
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780813912936
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book That Gentle Strength written by Lynda L. Coon and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Christian women : sources and interpretation / Elizabeth A. Clark -- Women in early Byzantine hagiography : reversing the story / Susan Ashbrook Harvey -- Marital imagery in six late twelfth- and early thirteenth-century vitae of female saints / Diane L. Mockridge -- The place of women in the late medieval Italian church / Duane J. Osheim -- Misconduct in the medieval nunnery : fact, not fiction / Graciela S. Daichman -- Telling her sins : male confessors and female penitents in Catholic Reformation Italy / Rudolph M. Bell -- The battle of the sexes and the world upside down / Keith Moxey -- The religion of the femmelettes : ideals and experience among women in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century France / Thomas Head -- The nuns of Port-Royal : a study of female spirituality in seventeenth-century France / Alexander Sedgwick -- Calling and career : the revolution in the mind and heart of Abigail Adams / Rosemary Skinner Keller. - Religion in the lives of slaveholding women of the antebellum South / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- Between fiction and madness : the relationship of women to the supernatural in late Victorian Britain / Mary Walker -- A spirit of her own : nineteenth-century.