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Informationen zum Autor Paul C. Dilley is Assistant Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Religions at the University of Iowa and has published widely on early Christianity in Late Antiquity, especially in Egypt and Syria. He is co-editor of the Dublin Kephalaia Codex and co-author of Mani at the Court of the Persian Kings (2014). Klappentext This book explores the personal practices and group rituals for monitoring and training the thoughts of disciples in early Christian monastic communities. Zusammenfassung This book explores the personal practices and group rituals for monitoring and training the thoughts of ancient Christian monks. It focuses on the earliest sources for communal monasticism! many translated into English for the first time! while drawing on cognitive studies to understand key disciplines like prayer and collective repentance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Evaluating Postulants: Introduction to Part I; 1. Discerning motivation I: status and vocation; 2. Discerning motivation II: trials of commitment; Part II. Cognitive Disciplines: Introduction to Part II; 3. Scriptural exercises and the monastic soundscape: writing on the heart; 4. Learning the fear of God; 5. Prayer and monastic progress: from demonic temptation to divine revelation; Part III. Collective Heart-Work: Introduction to Part III; 6. The lives (and minds) of others: hagiography, cognition, and commemoration; 7. Shenoute and the heart of darkness: rituals of collective repentance; Conclusion.
