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:
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.

The Monastic Origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices

The Monastic Origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices
Author: Hugo Lundhaug
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2015-10-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9783161541728

"Hugo Lundhaug and Lance Jenott offer a sustained argument for the monastic provenance of the Nag Hammadi Codices. They examine the arguments for and against a monastic Sitz im Leben and defend the view that the Codices were produced and read by Christian monks, most likely Pachomians, in the fourth- and fifth-century monasteries of Upper Egypt. Eschewing the modern classification of the Nag Hammadi texts as “Gnostic,” the authors approach the codices and their ancient owners from the perspective of the diverse monastic culture of late antique Egypt and situate them in the context of the ongoing controversies over extra-canonical literature and the theological legacy of Origen. Through a combination of sources, including idealized hagiographies, travelogues, monastic rules and exhortations, and the more quotidian details revealed in documentary papyri, manuscript collections, and archaeology, monasticism in the Thebaid is brought to life, and the Nag Hammadi codices situated within it. The cartonnage papyri from the leather covers of the codices, which bear witness to the monastic culture of the region, are closely examined, while scribal and codicological features of the codices are analyzed and compared with contemporary manuscripts from Egypt. Special attention is given to the codices’ scribal notes and colophons which offer direct evidence of their producers and users. The study ultimately reveals the Nag Hammadi Codices as a collection of books completely at home in the monastic manuscript culture of late antique Egypt."--