‘… seeing that for monks the life of Antony is a sufficient pattern of discipline’: Athanasius as Mystagogue in his "Vita Antonii"
This article argues that in the Vita Antonii Athanasius’s realistic colouring of some commonplaces indicates that more justice has been done to Anthony’s personality, as Athanasius experienced it, than the emphasis on his indebtedness to classical literature suggests. The central question in this ar...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2010
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Church history and religious culture
Year: 2010, Volume: 90, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 199-221 |
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Mystagogy
Monastic Formation
Ascesis
Christian Identity
Egypt
Copts
Desert Fathers
Anthony
Athanasius
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