Monastic Life in Late Antiquity: Distinctive Features & Appeal
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Monastic Life in Late Antiquity: Distinctive Features & Appeal
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Monastic Life in Late Antiquity: Distinctive Features & Appeal
I. Whom Did It Attract? – 2 somewhat surprising groups:
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Monastic Life in Late Antiquity: Distinctive Features & Appeal
I. Whom Did It Attract? – 2 somewhat surprising groups:
A. Intellectuals
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St. Basil the Great
-one of the 3 Cappadocian Fathers
-a founder of eastern monasticism
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Monastic Life in Late Antiquity: Distinctive Features & Appeal
I. Whom Did It Attract? – 2 somewhat surprising groups:
A. Intellectuals
B. Women
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Monastic Life in Late Antiquity: Distinctive Features & Appeal
I. Whom Did It Attract? – 2 somewhat surprising groups:
A. Intellectuals
B. Women
- Desert Mothers
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Desert Mothers
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“Amma Theodora said that a teacher ought to be a stranger to theDesire for domination, vainglory and pride. One should not be able to fool that person by flattery, nor blind that person by gifts…Rather, the teacher should be patient, gentle and humble as far as possible; the teacher must also be tested and be without favoritism, full of concern for others, and a lover of souls.”
-Theodora 5
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St. Mary of Egypt
18th-century Russian icon
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St. Mary with Abba Zosimas
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“Amma Sarah said to the brothers: ‘It is I who am a man; and you are the women!’”
-Sarah 9
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Monastic Life in Late Antiquity: Distinctive Features & Appeal
I. Whom Did It Attract? – 2 somewhat surprising groups:
A. Intellectuals
B. Women
II. Distinctive Features of Monastic Life
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Monastic Life in Late Antiquity: Distinctive Features & Appeal
I. Whom Did It Attract? – 2 somewhat surprising groups:
A. Intellectuals
B. Women
II. Distinctive Features of Monastic Life
A. Asceticism
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Monastic Life in Late Antiquity: Distinctive Features & Appeal
I. Whom Did It Attract? – 2 somewhat surprising groups:
A. Intellectuals
B. Women
II. Distinctive Features of Monastic Life
A. Asceticism
B. Separation from the world
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Turning your back on the world
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Monastic Life in Late Antiquity: Distinctive Features & Appeal
I. Whom Did It Attract? – 2 somewhat surprising groups:
A. Intellectuals
B. Women
II. Distinctive Features of Monastic Life
A. Asceticism
B. Separation from the world
C. Meditation
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Monastic Life in Late Antiquity: Distinctive Features & Appeal
I. Whom Did It Attract? – 2 somewhat surprising groups:
A. Intellectuals
B. Women
II. Distinctive Features of Monastic Life
A. Asceticism
B. Separation from the world
C. Meditation
D. Mystical Experience
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Monastic Life in Late Antiquity: Distinctive Features & Appeal
I. Whom Did It Attract? – 2 somewhat surprising groups:
A. Intellectuals
B. Women
II. Distinctive Features of Monastic Life
A. Asceticism
B. Separation from the world
C. Meditation
D. Mystical Experience
E. Voluntary Poverty
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Monastic Life in Late Antiquity: Distinctive Features & Appeal
I. Whom Did It Attract? – 2 somewhat surprising groups:
A. Intellectuals
B. Women
II. Distinctive Features of Monastic Life
A. Asceticism
B. Separation from the world
C. Meditation
D. Mystical Experience
E. Voluntary Poverty
F. Chastity
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Monastic Life in Late Antiquity: Distinctive Features & Appeal
I. Whom Did It Attract? – 2 somewhat surprising groups:
A. Intellectuals
B. Women
II. Distinctive Features of Monastic Life
A. Asceticism
B. Separation from the world
C. Meditation
D. Mystical Experience
E. Voluntary Poverty
F. Chastity
G. Community
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The "Desert Fathers" below Christ and the Apostles
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Coptic monks' graffiti (carved on the Ptolemaic temple at Deir el-Medina)