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Pachomius The Making of a Community in Fourth-Century Egypt

Rousseau Philip
Heftet / 1999 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780520219595
Publisert
1999-07-06
Utgiver
Vendor
University of California Press
Vekt
363 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Rousseau Philip

Biografisk notat

Philip Rousseau is Associate Professor of History at the University of Auckland. He is the author of Basil of Caesarea (California, 1995).

Pachomius The Making of a Community in Fourth-Century Egypt

Rousseau Philip
Heftet / 1999 / Engelsk
Rousseau Philip
Heftet / 1999 / Engelsk
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"Masterful control of the sources and sympathy for the subject. . . . Pachomius has the additional interest of dealing with a classic instance of biographical and other material originally compiled rom oral tradition, with all the fascination and uncertainty that this brings to the interpretation of the story." 

Times Literary Supplement

"An impressive and readable study, well argued and admirably documented."

Journal of Theological Studies

"[Rosseau] has made Pachomius a more understandable historical figure and has shown the uniqueness of the way of life he struggled to define."

American Historical Review

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"This very readable and well-documented work provides a needed corrective to the superficial treatment of Pachomius found in many monastic histories."

Church History

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.
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Pachomius, who died in 346, has long been regarded as the "founder of monasticism". This reading of the available texts, first published in 1985, reveals that Pachomius's pioneering enterprise has been consistently misread in light of later monastic practices.
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"Masterful control of the sources and sympathy for the subject. . . . Pachomius has the additional interest of dealing with a classic instance of biographical and other material originally compiled rom oral tradition, with all the fascination and uncertainty that this brings to the interpretation of the story." 

Times Literary Supplement

"An impressive and readable study, well argued and admirably documented."

Journal of Theological Studies

"[Rosseau] has made Pachomius a more understandable historical figure and has shown the uniqueness of the way of life he struggled to define."

American Historical Review

Se alle

"This very readable and well-documented work provides a needed corrective to the superficial treatment of Pachomius found in many monastic histories."

Church History

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.
Les mer
Pachomius, who died in 346, has long been regarded as the "founder of monasticism". This reading of the available texts, first published in 1985, reveals that Pachomius's pioneering enterprise has been consistently misread in light of later monastic practices.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780520219595
Publisert
1999-07-06
Utgiver
Vendor
University of California Press
Vekt
363 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Rousseau Philip

Biografisk notat

Philip Rousseau is Associate Professor of History at the University of Auckland. He is the author of Basil of Caesarea (California, 1995).

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