The Text Of A Coptic Monastic Discourse On Love And Self-Control: Its Story From The Fourth Century To The Twenty-First (Volume 272) (Cistercian Studies)

Of the Text -- The Language and Fourth-Century Date of the Text -- The Pachomian Koinonia: The Community to which On Love and Self-Control Was First Addressed -- The Pachomian Remission: An Annual Opportunity for a Discourse On Love and Self-Control -- A Potential Context for On Love and Self-Control in the Pachomian Conflicts following Pachomius's Death -- Pachomian Use of On Love and Self-Control in the Editing of Instruction concerning a Spiteful Monk -- The Dissolution of the Pachomian Community -- On Love and Self-Control and Its Codex (MONB. CP) -- The Provenance of the Manuscript of On Love and Self-Control -- The Creation of the Codex in the Late Sixth or Early Seventh Century -- Issues of Authorship -- Attribution to Athanasius -- Affinities between Athanasian Writings and On Love and Self-Control -- Reasons to Question an Athanasian Origin for On Love and Self-Control -- A Possible Origin for On Love and Self-Control among the Pachomians -- Horsiesios and On Love and Self-Control -- The Use of the Discourse On Love and Self-Control Beyond the Seventh Century -- Events Affecting the Church in Egypt from the Seventh to Tenth Centuries -- A Tenth-Century Reception of On Love and Self-Control by way of Instruction concerning a Spiteful Monk -- On Love and Self-Control in the Eleventh-Century Apocalypse of Samuel of Qalamun -- The Copying of On Love and Self-Control in the Eleventh or Twelfth Century -- The Dismemberment of the Codex in the Nineteenth Century and Its Current Reconstruction -- Conclusion.

• | Author: Carolyn M. Schneider, Saint Athanasius (Patriarch of Alexandria)
• | Publisher: Liturgical Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 28, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 238 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Religion
• | ISBN-10: 0879070722
• | ISBN-13: 9780879070724