Asketikon of St Basil the Great

Zusatztext This work should be found in all monasteries and noviciates and it would be of interest to all who are interested in monasticism. Informationen zum Autor Anna M. Silvas is Australian Research Council Fellow, Department of Classics, History, and Religion, University of New England, Australia. Klappentext The Asketikon of St Basil the Great comprises a new English translation and studies which re-examine the emergence of monasticism in Asia Minor. The Regula Basilii, translated by Rufinus from Basil's Small Asketikon, is closely compared with the Greek text of the longer edition, as a means to tracing the development of ideas. Silvas concludes that the antecedents of the monastic community of the Great Asketikon are best sought not in some kind of sub-orthodox modus vivendi of male and female ascetics living together and increasingly curbed by an emerging neo-Nicene orthodoxy less favourable to women ('homoiousian asceticism'), but in the local domestic ascetic movement in Anatolia as typified in the developments at Annisa under the leadership of Makrina. Zusammenfassung The Asketikon of St Basil the Great comprises a new English translation and studies which re-examine the emergence of monasticism in Asia Minor. The Regula Basilii, translated by Rufinus from Basil's Small Asketikon, is closely compared with the Greek text of the longer edition, as a means to tracing the development of ideas. Silvas concludes that the antecedents of the monastic community of the Great Asketikon are best sought not in some kind of sub-orthodox modus vivendi of male and female ascetics living together and increasingly curbed by an emerging neo-Nicene orthodoxy less favourable to women ('homoiousian asceticism'), but in the local domestic ascetic movement in Anatolia as typified in the developments at Annisa under the leadership of Makrina. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: An introduction to the textual issues 2: The ascetic community in the two versions of Basil's Asketikon 3: The geography behind the history 4: Revisiting the emergence of monasticism in fourth-century Anatolia 5: Rufinus, witness of the Small Asketikon 6: Basil and the Great Asketikon Conclusion The Asketikon of St Basil the Great The Longer Responses The Shorter Responses ...

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• Authors: Anna M Silvas, Anna M. Silvas, Anna M. (Australian Research Council Fello Silvas, Anna M. (Australian Research Council Fellow Silvas, Silvas Anna M.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.09.2005
• EAN: 9780199273515
• ISBN: 978-0-19-927351-5
• No. of pages: 540
• Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies; Oxford Early Christian Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Christianity / Orthodox, RELIGION / Monasticism, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, History of Religion, Ancient (Classical) Greek, BCE to c 500 CE, The Early Church, BCE period – Protohistory, Religious communities and monasticism, Christian communities & monasticism, Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches, Orthodox & Oriental Churches