The Letters of Ammonas
Title | The Letters of Ammonas PDF eBook |
Author | Derwas Chitty |
Publisher | SLG Press |
Pages | 50 |
Release | 1979-04-13 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0728303507 |
This book contains the fourteen surviving letters of St Ammonas, one of the disciples of St Antony the Great. The main topics of these letters are the gifts of the Spirit, spiritual direction and discernment of the will of God. Derwas Chitty made a draft translation of these letters from the Greek and early Syriac versions; after his death, Dr Sebastian Brock carried out a thorough revision and added an introduction and a bibliography.
The Letters of Ammonas
Title | The Letters of Ammonas PDF eBook |
Author | Saint Ammonas |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 1979 |
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The Letters of Ammonas
Title | The Letters of Ammonas PDF eBook |
Author | Ammonas (of Egypt, Successor of Saint Antony) |
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Pages | 21 |
Release | 1985 |
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Letters of Ammonas
Title | Letters of Ammonas PDF eBook |
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Release | 1983 |
Genre | Ammonas, B. |
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The Letters of St. Antony
Title | The Letters of St. Antony PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Rubenson |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1995-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780800629106 |
This book revolutionizes our understanding of the life and thought of the great anchorite father of the Egyptian desert. It is a signal contribution to our knowledge of Egyptian Christianity in the third and fourth centuries.—Birger Pearson, Institute for Antiquity and Christianity Samuel Rubenson, by means of a fresh analysis of the letters of St. Antony, exposes the distortion of the picture of early Christian monks as unlettered and primitive. Rubenson describes the desert monasteries as centers of theological reflection in Egypt, showing how they combined the speculative philosophy of the Greeks and the biblical tradition. Included in this volume is a new translation of the letters themselves, which are shown to be authentic and an important source for the study of the desert fathers and the early monastic tradition. The later image of Antony is demonstrated to be influenced by church politics of the latter part of the fourth century. Samuel Rubenson is Associate Professor at Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
The Letters of Abba Ammonas
Title | The Letters of Abba Ammonas PDF eBook |
Author | Abba Ammonas |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024-06-10 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
Collecting Early Christian Letters from the Apostle Paul to Late Antiquity
Title | Collecting Early Christian Letters from the Apostle Paul to Late Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | Bronwen Neil |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 275 |
Release | 2015-02-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107091861 |
The first multi-authored study of New Testament and late antique letter collections, crossing the traditional divide between these disciplines.