John Rufus and the World Vision of Anti-Chalcedonean Culture : : Second Revised Edition / / Jan-Eric Steppa.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2015
• VerfasserIn: Steppa, Jan-Eric,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)

This book deals with the works of the anti-Chalcedonian hagiographer, John Rufus, and traces the basic motives behind the opposition against the council of Chalcedon in the fifth century through an attempt to reconstruct a specific anti-Chalcedonian culture. As part of the eastern monastic culture, it considered itself a counter-culture guarding purity of ascetic conduct and orthodoxy from being defiled by the perverseness of the majority. Reading John Rufus' hagiography, we find ourselves in the midst of a cosmological warfare between good and evil, where the great heroes of the anti-Chalcedonian movement enter into history as God's warriors against the rebellion of demons and heretics.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Stage of the Resistance -- 2. The Texts -- 3. The Images of Authority -- 4. Signs and Revelations -- 5. The Image of the Enemies -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index