Basil of Caesarea By Philip Rousseau (Paperback) 9780520213814

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Basil of Caesarea is often thought of as an opponent of heresy and a pioneer of monastic life In this biographical study however controversy is no longer seen as the central preoccupation of his life nor are his ascetic initiatives viewed as seperable... More

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This is a full survey of the first 600 years of Christian history from the world of second-temple Judaism to the Byzantine age the rise of Islam and the beginnings of medieval European polities More

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Pachomius who died in 346 has long been regarded as the founder of monasticism This reading of the available texts first published in 1985 reveals that Pachomius's pioneering enterprise has been consistently misread in light of later monastic practices More