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Renouncing the world yet leading the church [electronic resource] : the monk-bishop in late antiquity / Andrea Sterk.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 360 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780674044012 (electronic bk.)
  • 0674044010 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Renouncing the world yet leading the church.DDC classification:
  • 262/.12/09015 22
LOC classification:
  • BR195.L42 S74 2004eb
Online resources:
Contents:
I: BASIL OF CAESAREA AND THE EMERGENCE OF AN IDEAL: -- Monks and bishops in the Christian East from 325 to 375 -- Asceticism and leadership in the thought of Basil of Caesarea -- Reframing and reforming the episcopate: Basil's direct influence -- II: THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN IDEAL: -- Gregory of Nyssa: On Basil, Moses, and episcopal office -- Gregory of Nazianzus: ascetic life and episcopal office in tension -- John Chrysostom: the model monk-bishop in spite of himself -- III: THE TRIUMPH OF AN IDEAL: -- From nuisances to episcopal ideals: civil and ecclesiastical legislation -- Normalizing the model: the Fifth-Century church histories -- The broadening appeal: monastic and hagiographical literature -- Epilogue: The legacy of the monk-bishop in the Byzanine world.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-350) and index.

I: BASIL OF CAESAREA AND THE EMERGENCE OF AN IDEAL: -- Monks and bishops in the Christian East from 325 to 375 -- Asceticism and leadership in the thought of Basil of Caesarea -- Reframing and reforming the episcopate: Basil's direct influence -- II: THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN IDEAL: -- Gregory of Nyssa: On Basil, Moses, and episcopal office -- Gregory of Nazianzus: ascetic life and episcopal office in tension -- John Chrysostom: the model monk-bishop in spite of himself -- III: THE TRIUMPH OF AN IDEAL: -- From nuisances to episcopal ideals: civil and ecclesiastical legislation -- Normalizing the model: the Fifth-Century church histories -- The broadening appeal: monastic and hagiographical literature -- Epilogue: The legacy of the monk-bishop in the Byzanine world.