RT Review
T1 Lo Spirito soffia nel deserto: Carismi, discernimento e autorità nel monachesimo egiziano antico. By Fabrizio Vecoli
JF The journal of theological studies
VO 60
IS 1
SP 288
OP 289
A1 Casiday, Augustine 1976-
LA English
YR 2009
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1783724749
AB The book under review surveys charisma and its exercise as related in early Egyptian monastic literature. Dr Vecoli's approach to the material is signalled from the opening lines of the introduction—an extended quotation from Peter Brown's The Making of Late Antiquity. Vecoli's study is informed by an approach to the social history of late ancient Christianity that will be familiar to readers of Brown's books. Thus, the discussion of charisma is indebted to Max Weber's sociological explorations. He also references his work to Christian debates from Harnack to Küng about charisma amongst the earliest Christians.
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/jts/flp020