Selected Discourses of Shenoute the Great (eBook)

Community, Theology, and Social Conflict in Late Antique Egypt

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2015
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-316-44381-1 (ISBN)

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Shenoute the Great (c.347-465) led one of the largest Christian monastic communities in late antique Egypt and was the greatest native writer of Coptic in history. For approximately eight decades, Shenoute led a federation of three monasteries and emerged as a Christian leader. His public sermons attracted crowds of clergy, monks, and lay people; he advised military and government officials; he worked to ensure that his followers would be faithful to orthodox Christian teaching; and he vigorously and violently opposed paganism and the oppressive treatment of the poor by the rich. This volume presents in translation a selection of his sermons and other orations. These works grant us access to the theology, rhetoric, moral teachings, spirituality, and social agenda of a powerful Christian leader during a period of great religious and social change in the later Roman Empire.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.12.2015
• Übersetzer: David Brakke, Andrew Crislip
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Liturgik / Homiletik
• ISBN-10: 1-316-44381-7 / 1316443817
• ISBN-13: 978-1-316-44381-1 / 9781316443811