Demons and the Making of the Monk : : Spiritual Combat in Early Christianity /

Demons and the Making of the Monk : : Spiritual Combat in Early Christianity / / David BRAKKE.

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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. Drawing on biographies of exceptional monks, collections of m...

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BRAKKE, David,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2006
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • I. The Monk in Combat
  • 1. The Single One: The Monk against the Demons
  • 2. The New Martyr and Holy Man: Athanasius of Alexandria's Life of Antony
  • 3. The Gnostic: Evagrius Ponticus
  • 4. The Vigilant Brother: Pachomius and the Pachomian Koinonia
  • 5. The Prophet: Shenoute and the White Monastery
  • II. War Stories
  • 6. "The Holy and Great Fathers": Monks, Demons, and Storytelling
  • 7. Ethiopian Demons: The Monastic Self and the Diabolical Other
  • 8. Manly Women, Female Demons, and Other Amazing Sights: Gender in Combat
  • 9. From Gods to Demons: Making Monks, Making Christians
  • Afterword: The Inner Battle
  • Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography Index
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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