“Angels in the Guise of Saints”: A Syrian Tradition in Constantinople
The article reconstructs the doctrine of Byzantine Iconoclasts on the postmortem inactivity of saints, and finds its background in the early Antiochean and Syrian doctrine on the “sleep of souls,” which occurs in Isaac the Syrian among many other writers.
| Published in: | Scrinium |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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| In: |
Scrinium
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages KCD Hagiography; saints NBQ Eschatology |
| Further subjects: | B
Byzantine Iconoclasm
sleep of souls
Isaac the Syrian
Anastasius of Sinai
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | The article reconstructs the doctrine of Byzantine Iconoclasts on the postmortem inactivity of saints, and finds its background in the early Antiochean and Syrian doctrine on the “sleep of souls,” which occurs in Isaac the Syrian among many other writers.
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| ISSN: | 1817-7565 |
| Contains: | In: Scrinium
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18177565-00121p03 |