Spiritual Direction As a Medical Art in Early Christian Monasticism

Spiritual Direction As a Medical Art in Early Christian Monasticism
Author: JONATHAN L. ZECHER
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2022-10-06
Genre:
ISBN: 0198854137

What expectations did the women and men living in early monastic communities carry into relationships of obedience and advice? What did they hope to achieve through confession and discipline? To explore these questions, this study shows how several early Christian writers applied the logic, knowledge, and practices of Galenic medicine to develop their own practices of spiritual direction. Evagrius reads dream images as diagnostic indicators of the soul's state. John Cassian crafts a nosology of the soul using lists of passions while diagnosing the causes of wet dreams. Basil of Caesarea pits the spiritual director against the physician in a competition over diagnostic expertise. John Climacus crafts pathologies of passions through demonic family trees, while equipping his spiritual director with a physician's toolkit and imagining the monastic space as a vast clinic. These different appropriations of medical logic and metaphors not only show us the thought-world of late antique monasticism, but they would also have decisive consequences for generations of Christian subjects who would learn to see themselves as sick or well, patients or healers, within monastic communities.

Latin / English Dictionary

Latin / English Dictionary
Author: Joseph D. Lesser
Publisher: Joseph D. Lesser
Total Pages: 2162
Release: 2018-10-10
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

This practical dictionary of the Latin language contains over 100,000 entries in a concise, easy-to-use format. The direction of the translation is from Latin to English. It offers a broad vocabulary from all areas and can be used as a classic reference work.

Livy

Livy
Author: Livy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 490
Release: 1922
Genre:
ISBN:

Livy

Livy
Author: Livy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 498
Release: 1967
Genre: Rome
ISBN:

30 Days of Night Scriptbook

30 Days of Night Scriptbook
Author: Stuart Beattie
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2007
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781600101267

"As a band of hungry vampires descends on the town of Barrow, Alaska, during a period of winter darkness, the townspeople's only hope lies with the husband-and-wife sheriff team of Stella and Eben Olemaun"--NoveList.