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The Asketikon of St Basil the Great

by Anna M. Silvas

  • Hardback
  • 540 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 3.1 cm

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For scholars and enthusiasts of early Christian monasticism

Provides insights into the origins of monastic life

You will gain a deeper understanding of Christian asceticism

This book presents a fresh English translation of St Basil's Asketikon, exploring the roots of monasticism.

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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.
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  • Author

    Anna M. Silvas

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    September 2005

  • Weight

    936g

  • Page Count

    540

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 3.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780199273515

  • ISBN-10

    0199273510

  • Eden Code

    1147374

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