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Ascetics, authority, and the church in the age of Jerome and Cassian /

"In his Ascetics, Authority, and the Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian, first published in 1978, Philip Rousseau presents a survey of asceticism in the western church until about 400, including a selective study of Jerome, and then, moving into the fifth century, a reading of Sulpicius an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rousseau, Philip
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2010.
Edición:2nd ed.
Colección:Project Muse philosophy and religion collection.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. The desert. Discovering the desert fathers
  • Masters and disciples
  • The growth of ascetic society
  • Ascetics in the church
  • The written word
  • pt. 2. Western beginnings. Exiles and pilgrims
  • Ascetic literature
  • pt. 3. Jerome. Antioch, Constantinople, and Rome
  • Letters from Bethlehem
  • Jerome on the priesthood and episcopate
  • Jerome's Lives
  • pt. 4. Martin of Tours. A bishop and his biographer
  • An apostle in Gaul
  • Martin's audience
  • pt. 5. Cassian. An exile in reverse
  • Hermits or coenobites?
  • Adapting Egypt to the West
  • Authority
  • Monks and the world
  • Cassian the writer
  • Appendices.