The Canons of Our Fathers

The Canons of Our Fathers
Author: Bentley Layton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2014-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199582637

This book is the first publication of a very early set of Christian monastic rules from Roman Egypt, accompanied by four preliminary chapters discussing their historical and social context and their character as rules. These rules were found quoted in the writings of the great Egyptian monastic leader Shenoute.

The Canons of Our Fathers

The Canons of Our Fathers
Author: Bentley Layton
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2014-09-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0191019224

This book is the first publication of a very early set of Christian monastic rules from Roman Egypt, accompanied by four preliminary chapters discussing their historical and social context and their character as rules. These rules were found quoted in the writings of the great Egyptian monastic leader Shenoute. Designed for a federation of monks and nuns who banded together about 360 CE—forming the so-called "White Monastery Federation"—the rules date back to the fourth and fifth centuries. New historical evidence is presented for the founding of the Federation. Providing almost the earliest evidence for Christian communal (cenobitic) monasticism, the rules depict many intimate aspects of ascetic practice. Details of monastic daily life are mentioned in passing in the rules, and the author uses these details to describe their picture of monastic life under five general topics: the monastery as a physical plant, the human makeup of the community, ascetic observances, the hierarchy of authority, and the daily liturgy. The book includes a clear English translation of the rules accompanied by the original Coptic text, amounting to five hundred and ninety-five entries.

The Canons of Our Fathers

The Canons of Our Fathers
Author: Bentley Layton
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2014
Genre: Coptic monasticism and religious orders
ISBN: 9780191747465

'The Canons of Our Fathers' is the first publication of a very early set of Christian monastic rules from Roman Egypt, accompanied by four preliminary chapters discussing their historical and social context and their character as rules. These rules were found quoted in the writings of the great Egyptian monastic leader Shenoute.

Canon and Criterion in Christian Theology

Canon and Criterion in Christian Theology
Author: William James Abraham
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2002
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780199250035

This is a study of canon in the Christian tradition. Standard accounts locate the canonical heritage of the church within epistemology. The author explores the consquences of this move, from the Fathers to modern feminist theology.

The Voice of Our Fathers

The Voice of Our Fathers
Author: Homer C. Hoeksema
Publisher: Reformed Free Pub Assn
Total Pages: 656
Release: 2013-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781936054268

This book is an extensive commentary on the articles drawn up by the great Synod of Dordrecht (1618-19). The articles stated and defended the doctrines of sovereign grace and rejected the Arminian error of free will. The Canons thereby resolved a raging controversy in the Dutch Reformed Churches concerning the sovereign grace of God. The introduction and appendices of the commentary include details of the history of the synod. This revised second edition features improved readability while maintaining the meaning and substance of the material.

Our Fathers

Our Fathers
Author: David France
Publisher: Broadway
Total Pages: 674
Release: 2005
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0767914066

An examination of the pedophile scandals that have rocked the Catholic Church assesses the implications of the crisis, explaining why the Church knowingly covered up decades of abuse and discussing how it has responded.

The Canons and Decrees of the Sacred and Oecumenical Council of Trent

The Canons and Decrees of the Sacred and Oecumenical Council of Trent
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 602
Release: 1848
Genre: Church history
ISBN:

The Council of Trent was, perhaps, the most important of the modern General Councils of the Roman Catholic Church. This Council was authorized by the Pope Paul III and opened in the Austrian city of Trent, December 13, 1545. It lasted, with interruptions, until December 4, 1563. The Canons and Decrees of this Council are the church's own authorized confession of its faith and its discipline. The present edition of the above Canons and Decrees contained in this work is a verbatim reprint of the London edition of 1848 by the Roman Catholic Bishop J. Waterworth, without notes, additions or omissions of any kind. - Preface.