Life giving resources. Faithfully delivered.
FREE delivery on orders over £10
Serving over 2 million Christians in the UK
with Bibles, Books and Church Supplies
Our Buy-Now-Pay-Later accounts used
by over 4,000 UK Churches & Schools
Excellent 4.8 out of 5

Trustpilot

You now have 0 of this item in your basket

Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great

[Hardback]

by Conrad Leyser

Author
Conrad Leyser
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published
October 2000

Read full description

Click to expand

Today's Price

£167.26

Save 17%

Free UK Delivery

Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days

Buying for a school or church? Upgrade to a FREE Eden Advance Account

Enter the product quantity

Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great

Today's Price £167.26

Frequently Bought Together

Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great

by Conrad Leyser

Hardback

Cloud of Witnesses

by Jonathan W. Arnold +1

Hardback

Add both to basket for £189.68 and save £37.31

Product Description

Conrad Leyser examines the formation of the Christian ascetic tradition in the western Roman Empire during the period of the barbarian invasions, c.400-600. In an aggressively competitive political context, one of the most articulate claims to power was made, paradoxically, by men who had renounced 'the world', committing themselves to a life of spiritual discipline in the hope of gaining entry to an otherworldly kingdom. Often dismissed as mere fanaticism or open hypocrisy, the language of ascetic authority, Conrad Leyser shows, was both carefully honed and well understood in the late Roman and early medieval Mediterranean. Dr Leyser charts the development of this new moral rhetoric by abbots, teachers, and bishops from the time of Augustine of Hippo to that of St Benedict and Gregory the Great.