Renouncing the World yet Leading the Church: The Monk-Bishop in Late Antiquity. By Andrea Sterk. Pp. viii + 360. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. isbn 0 674 01189 9. £29.95
The gradual rise of the monk-bishop as the normative pattern for ecclesiastical leadership in the Christian East is an undeniably fascinating subject. What is perhaps most impressive in Andrea Sterk's lucid, balanced, and informed study is the way in which she carefully considers the phenomenon...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 57, Issue: 2, Pages: 718-720 |
| Review of: | Renouncing the World yet Leading the Church (Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2009) (Plested, Marcus)
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| Summary: | The gradual rise of the monk-bishop as the normative pattern for ecclesiastical leadership in the Christian East is an undeniably fascinating subject. What is perhaps most impressive in Andrea Sterk's lucid, balanced, and informed study is the way in which she carefully considers the phenomenon against the wider background of Church–Empire relations and, especially, the ongoing tension between the institutional Church and the monastic movement. While the study starts in earnest in the fourth century, Sterk gives warranted attention to earlier models connecting asceticism and leadership, both Christian and pagan. She is, for example, admirably alive to the Syrian proto-monastic tradition and its early espousal of ascetic criteria as determinative for the selection of Christian leaders. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fll071 |