Renouncing the World yet Leading the Church : : The Monk-Bishop in Late Antiquity /

Renouncing the World yet Leading the Church : : The Monk-Bishop in Late Antiquity / / Andrea Sterk.

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Although an ascetic ideal of leadership had both classical and biblical roots, it found particularly fertile soil in the monastic fervor of the fourth through sixth centuries. Church officials were increasingly recruited from monastic communities, and the monk-bishop became the dominant model of ecc...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
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Sterk, Andrea,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021]
©2004
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • I BASIL OF CAESAREA AND THE EMERGENCE OF AN IDEAL
  • 1 Monks and Bishops in the Christian East from 325 to 375
  • 2 Asceticism and Leadership in the Thought of Basil of Caesarea
  • 3 Reframing and Reforming the Episcopate: Basil's Direct Influence
  • II THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN IDEAL
  • 4 Gregory of Nyssa: On Basil, Moses, and Episcopal Office
  • 5 Gregory of Nazianzus: Ascetic Life and Episcopal Office in Tension
  • 6 John Chrysostom: The Model Monk-Bishop in Spite of Himself
  • III THE TRIUMPH OF AN IDEAL
  • 7 From Nuisances to Episcopal Ideals: Civil and Ecclesiastical Legislation
  • 8 Normalizing the Model: The Fifth-Century Church Histories
  • 9 The Broadening Appeal: Monastic and Hagiographical Literature
  • Epilogue: The Legacy of the Monk-Bishop in the Byzantine World
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Frequently Cited Works
  • Index

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