Death of the Desert : : Monastic Memory and the Loss of Egypt's Golden Age / / Christine Luckritz Marquis.
In the late fourth century, the world of Christianity was torn apart by debate over the teachings of the third-century theologian Origen and his positions on the incorporeality of God. In the year 400, Archbishop Theophilus of Alexandria convened a council declaring Origen's later followers as...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Imagining and Inhabiting the Desert
- Chapter 2. Psalmody and Prayer as Ascetic Weapons
- Chapter 3. Monks and Memory Sanctions
- Chapter 4. The Desert and the Discourse on Barbarians
- Chapter 5. Reordering the Desert
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments