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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"monastic literature"”.
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The Representation of Salvation in The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
<p>This thesis examines four prominent works of monastic literature composed during the third through the sixth centuries and contrasts the representations of salvation within them. The Lives of Constantine and Antony, The Lausiac History and The Sayings o f the Desert Fathers discussed conceptions …
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The Spiritual Anthropology of John Cassian
… anthropology of John Cassian, who composed two monastic works, the Institutes and the Conferences. Although Cassian transmits the teachings of the Egyptian desert fathers living in the later fourth century, many polemical mind-sets, from his Latin contemporaries to modem critics, have not been …
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Baths and Public Bathing Culture in Late Antiquity, 300-700
… other forms of evidence against the ascetic-monastic literature and work toward an understanding of social practice in late Roman bathing culture. Ultimately, the chapter demonstrates that rigorist Christian discourse on baths and bathing in late antiquity served important ideological …
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Pisarstwo Nila z Ankyry: wybrane zagadnienia
Praca została poświęcona pisarstwu Nila z Ankyry, płodnemu, choć dość enigmatycznemu autorowi z przełomu IV i V wieku. Zawarte w niej rozważania skupione zostały wokół obrazotwórczego i perswazyjnego potencjału jego dzieł, realizowanego w procesie literackiego przekazu. Za oś rozważań posłużyła …