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The Sentences of Sextus and the origins of Christian ascetiscism /
"Daniele Pevarello analyzes the Sentences of Sextus, a second century collection of Greek aphorisms compiled by Sextus, an otherwise unknown Christian author. The specific character of Sextus' collection lies in the fact that the Sentences are a Christian rewriting of Hellenistic sayings,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tübingen :
Mohr Siebeck,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum ;
78. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the golden cup of Babylon
- The sentences of Sextus : reception and interpretation
- Introduction
- The testimony of origen
- Sextus in Contra Celsum
- The sentences among radical ascetics
- Controversies over the sentences in Latin Christianity
- Rufinus' Latin Sextus : a manual of asceticism
- Jerome : the sentences and moral perfectionism
- The sentences and the Pelagian understanding of sin
- The Later Ascetic tradition up to the modern era
- Evagrius of Pontus and the Armenian Sextus
- The sentences in Egypt and Syria
- Sextus in the monastic tradition of the west
- From the monastic scriptorium to the printing press
- Sextus in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- The first critical studies
- Sextus in nineteenth-century German scholarship
- The beginning of the twentieth century
- The sentences of Sextus in the modern scholarly debate
- Sextus between Hellenistic and Christian morality
- Sextus between early Christian wisdom and Gnostic asceticism
- Sextus in recent scholarship
- Conclusion
- Looking forward
- Sextus and sexual morality : castration, celibacy and procreation
- Introduction
- Sext. 12-13 and 273 : the problem of castration
- Self-castration in the sentences
- Literal and allegorical castration
- From suicide to castration
- Sext. 230a : celibacy in the sentences of Sextus
- Companions of God? : variations on Paul
- The special bond between God and the ascetic continent
- Sextus, procreation and the Pythagorean tradition
- Marriage in Sextus and Clitarchus
- The ... husband in Sext. 231
- Aborting procreationism
- The diet of love
- Conclusion
- Looking forward
- Sages without property : the example of Sext. 15-21
- Introduction
- The ... in Sextus
- Dispossession and freedom
- Poverty as godlike self-sufficiency
- Self-sufficiency as an ascetic practice in the Sentences
- From the ... to the ...
- Ascetic Christians in a Cynic's Rags?
- Poor sages and poor monks
- Sextus and Caesar's Denarius
- "To the world the things of the world" (Sext. 20)
- The rule of necessity
- Sextus' interpretation and Alexandrian Christianity
- Sextus and wealth : further pagan and Christian interactions
- Conclusion
- Looking forward
- Wordiness, brevity and silence in Sextus
- Introduction
- The dangers of Wordiness
- Idle, thoughtless talking
- Prov 10:19 LXX in Sext. 155
- Sextus and brevity
- The words and the Word : brevity as a theological and moral problem
- "Wisdom accompanies brevity of speech" (Sext. 156)
- Sextus' Laconic Sage
- Concise Socrates, concise Moses, concise Jesus
- From brevity to silence
- The austerity of the Christian sage
- Conclusion
- Looking Forward
- The social life of the Ascetic sage
- Introduction
- A sage in the world : philanthropy, purity and separation
- The sage as a philanthropist
- Wisdom as an act of purification
- The world as a separate entity in Sextus
- The Sage's solitude
- From cosmopolitism to political disengagement
- Seclusion and the quest for wisdom
- Contemplation and Imitation
- The soul's journey towards God
- Contemplation and imitation of God
- Conclusion
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index of references
- Index of authors
- Index of subjects.