Life of St. Antony
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ChristianityMonasticism…of ecclesiastical politics, wrote the Life of St. Antony, which described the eremitic (hermit) life in the desert and the awesome struggle of ascetics with demons as the model of the life of Christian perfection. The Life had a profound impact on its many readers and was one of the…
Read More…of ecclesiastical politics, wrote the Life of St. Antony, which described the eremitic (hermit) life in the desert and the awesome struggle of ascetics with demons as the model of the life of Christian perfection. The Life had a profound impact on its many readers and was one of the…
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history of EuropeThe organization of late imperial Christianity…4th-century Latin translation of the Life of Saint Antony (by Patriarch Athanasius of Alexandria) and through widely traveled observers such as the theologian and monk John Cassian (360–435). These Mediterranean-wide influences were among the last examples of the communications network of the older, ecumenical Mediterranean world. Monasticism developed and sustained…
Read More…4th-century Latin translation of the Life of Saint Antony (by Patriarch Athanasius of Alexandria) and through widely traveled observers such as the theologian and monk John Cassian (360–435). These Mediterranean-wide influences were among the last examples of the communications network of the older, ecumenical Mediterranean world. Monasticism developed and sustained…
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- Latin literatureThe 3rd to the 5th century: the rise of Christian Latin literature
…bishop of Antioch, of Athanasius’ Life of Saint Antony enjoyed the widest transmission, and its influence is as marked by contrast in the early Latin Lives of the Saints as it is by imitation. Sulpicius Severus’ biography of St. Martin, an original Latin work, greatly influenced hagiography over many centuries.…
Read More…bishop of Antioch, of Athanasius’ Life of Saint Antony enjoyed the widest transmission, and its influence is as marked by contrast in the early Latin Lives of the Saints as it is by imitation. Sulpicius Severus’ biography of St. Martin, an original Latin work, greatly influenced hagiography over many centuries.…
Read More - patristic literatureThe Nicene Fathers
…God; the attractive and influential Life of St. Antony, which was to give a powerful impulse to monasticism (especially in the West); and his numerous exegetical and ascetic essays, which survive largely in fragments, sometimes in Coptic or Syriac translations—should not be overlooked.
Read More…God; the attractive and influential Life of St. Antony, which was to give a powerful impulse to monasticism (especially in the West); and his numerous exegetical and ascetic essays, which survive largely in fragments, sometimes in Coptic or Syriac translations—should not be overlooked.
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