The Asketikon of St Basil the Great. By Anna M. Silvas
This addition to the burgeoning Oxford Early Christian Studies series presents a careful reading and translation of Basil's monastic legislation. Silvas offers this, in admirably unabashed fashion, as a contribution towards a recovery, ‘or even reinvention’, of Christian monasticism—the decline...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2008
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 59, Issue: 1, Pages: 368-370 |
| Review of: | The Asketikon of St Basil the Great (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2005) (Plested, Marcus)
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| Summary: | This addition to the burgeoning Oxford Early Christian Studies series presents a careful reading and translation of Basil's monastic legislation. Silvas offers this, in admirably unabashed fashion, as a contribution towards a recovery, ‘or even reinvention’, of Christian monasticism—the decline or loss of which she sees as a major factor in the contemporary ‘crisis of Christianity’. The book consists of a detailed discussion of the textual tradition, ascetic background, historical context, and geographical setting of the material, followed by a translation of the Great Asketikon itself (i.e. Basil's Shorter and Longer Rules in their expanded form of the late 360s and 370s). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fln030 |