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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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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