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 St. Antony the Great
Title | The Letters of St. Antony the Great PDF eBook |
Author | Saint Anthony (of Egypt) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Letters of Saint Antony the Great
Title | Letters of Saint Antony the Great PDF eBook |
Author | Derwas Chitty |
Publisher | SLG Press |
Pages | 55 |
Release | 1975-04-20 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0728303116 |
These seven letters were addressed by St Antony (251-356 AD) to his disciples. This hermit of the Egyptian desert draws our attention to those things which are essential in the spiritual life. Among the main themes are the witness of the Holy Spirit in the conscience of each person, the need for self-knowledge, the call to follow Christ, the unity of the Church, and our mutual co-inherence as members of the Body of Christ.
The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinus
Title | The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinus PDF eBook |
Author | Athanase ((saint ;) |
Publisher | Paulist Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780809122950 |
Athanasius (c. 295-373) Bishop of Alexandria, spiritual master and theologian, was a major figure of 4th-century Christendom. The Life of Antony is one of the foremost classics of asceticism. The Letter to Marcellinus is an introduction to the spiritual sense of the Psalms.
Athanasius
Title | Athanasius PDF eBook |
Author | Albert Haase OFM |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 2012-03-22 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 083083592X |
Athanasius, one of the most influential church fathers in history, records in his Life of Antony of Egypt the story of another extremely influential figure of early Christianity. Albert Haase's paraphrase of this important work gives us access to a masterwork of spiritual formation, that we too might know God as richly as Athanasius did.
The Letters of St. Antony the Great
Title | The Letters of St. Antony the Great PDF eBook |
Author | Saint Anthony (of Egypt) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Monastic Visions
Title | Monastic Visions PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth S. Bolman |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 2002-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0300092245 |
The book reproduces the cleaned paintings for the first time. It also describes and analyzes their amalgam of Coptic (Egyptian Christian), Byzantine, and Arab styles and motifs as well as the religious culture to which they belong. In 1996, funded by the United States Agency for International Development and at the request of the Monastery of St. Antony, the Antiquities Development Project of the American Research Center in Egypt began the conservation of the paintings in the church. The paintings revealed by the conservators are of extremely high quality, both stylistically and conceptually. While rooted in the Christian tradition of Egypt, they also reveal explicit connections with Byzantine and Islamic art of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Some newly discovered paintings can even be dated back to the sixth or seventh century.