Pachomius
The Making of a Community in Fourth Century Egypt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3913838 |
|---|---|
| Authors | W H C Frend, Phillip Rousseau |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 553 |
| Publication date | 1986-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of African Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-7882 • E-ISSN: 2326-3016 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/219004 |
| OpenAlex | W1986053998 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 47 |
Pachomius, who died in 346, has long been regarded as the founder of Available again, Philip Rousseau's careful reading of the available texts reveals that Pachomius's pioneering enterprise has been consistently misread in light of later monastic practices. Rousseau not only provides a fuller and more accurate portrait of this great teacher and spiritual director but also gives a new perspective on the development of monasticism. In a new preface Rousseau reviews the scholarly developments that have modified his views and emphases since the book was published. The result is to make Pachomius an even less assured pioneer, a man likely to have been more involved in the village and urban society of his time than previously thought
Ancient history · Archaeology · Geography · Political science · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Christian Theology and Mission · History · Religion, Society, and Development
Etkileri ve Problemleriyle Hıristiyanlıkta Çifte Manastırlar ve Günümüze Yansımaları
The Ascent of the Soul and the Pachomians
Plato in Bad Company? Plato’s Republic (588b–589b) in the Nag Hammadi Collection
Training the mind
Monastic diet in Late Antique Egypt
“I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven .”1 Illness as demon possession in the world of the first Christian ascetics and monks
Monks and children
From Nitria to Sitria’
Satan and Demons in the Apostolic Fathers
Induced Altruism in Religious, Military, and Terrorist Organizations
The Idea of Innocent Martyrdom in Late Tenth- and Eleventh-century English Hagiology
Kinship, Property Relations, and the Survival of Double Monasteries in the Eastern Church
Withdrawing from the Desert
Earth Accuses Earth
Pachomius Outside the Shadow of the Vita Antonii
The Making of Monastic Demonology
The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World
Assembling Early Christianity
Dreams, Virtue and Divine Knowledge in Early Christian Egypt
Christianity and Roman Society
The Era of the Martyrs
The world-view
Late Roman social relations
Rural life in the later Roman empire
Christianity, a.d. 70–192
The Nag Hammadi Codices and their Ancient Readers
Sacrifice, gifts, and prayers in Latin Christianity
Orthodoxy and heresy from the death of Constantine to the eve of the first council of Ephesus
Egypt from Septimius Severus to the death of Constantine
Polytheist religion and philosophy
Developments in provincial and local administration
Education and literary culture
Law and its applications
Art and architecture
Asceticism and monasticism, I
Overview
Senators and senates
Asceticism
The successors of Constantine
Self-definition vis-à-vis the Graeco-Roman world
Persecutions
Emperors, government and bureaucracy
Asia Minor and Achaea
Emperors and Bishops in Late Roman Invective
Towards a Christian paideia
Third-century Christianity
Problems in the History of Christian Friendship
| Unique citing works | 47 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,42 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2023 (31) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 31 |