"From the Womb of the Church": Monastic Families
This article presents a scrutiny of four major monastic texts (Augustine's letters to Laetus and Ecdicia; Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Macrina; and the Egyptian monk Shenoute's sermon, "On Cleaving to Profitable Things") to argue that a "profamilial" attitude existed...
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Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
2003
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Journal of early Christian studies
Year: 2003, Volume: 11, Issue: 3, Pages: 283-307 |
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