Name: Athanasius and Asceticism (en Inglés)
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Author: David Brakke
ISBN: 9780801860553

portada Athanasius and Asceticism (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Johns Hopkins University Press

Autor

David Brakke

Año

1998

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

376

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0801860555

ISBN13

9780801860553

Categorías

Historia de la religión
Cristianismo

Athanasius and Asceticism (en Inglés)

David Brakke (Autor) · Johns Hopkins University Press · Tapa Blanda

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It is often assumed that early Christian asceticism drew its followers completely away from worldly concerns into the realm of pure spirituality. But the life and thought of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria (AD 328-73), shows just how worldly―and deeply political―ascetic theology could be. David Brakke examines this important church leader's efforts to reconcile asceticism's compelling intensity with the more conventional needs of the families and everyday believers on whom the Church relied for support and stability. Brakke describes how Athanasius joined with other fourth century bishops to create a strongly unified Christian church in Egypt, bringing both the solitary monks of the desert and the female ascetics in the cities under church authority by organizing them into auxiliaries of the emerging local parishes. By carefully integrating ascetic values and practices into a comprehensive vision of the church as a heavenly commonwealth, Brakke argues, Athanasius unified a community of Christians practicing diverse versions of their faith and helped to establish the lines of administrative and pastoral authority that would be essential to the church's future success. This illuminating study of the turmoil of fourth century Christianity also includes the first English translations of many of Athanasius's ascetic and pastoral writings.