Steppa John Rufus and the World Vision of Anti-Chalcedonean Culture

Second Revised Edition
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4632-3634-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Reihe: Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics

This book deals with the works of the anti-Chalcedonian hagiographer, John Rufus, and traces the basic motives behind the opposition against the council of Chalcedon in the fifth century through an attempt to reconstruct a specific anti-Chalcedonian culture. As part of the eastern monastic culture, it considered itself a counter-culture guarding purity of ascetic conduct and orthodoxy from being defiled by the perverseness of the majority. Reading John Rufus' hagiography, we find ourselves in the midst of a cosmological warfare between good and evil, where the great heroes of the anti-Chalcedonian movement enter into history as God's warriors against the rebellion of demons and heretics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Steppa, Jan-Eric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface and Acknowledgments (page 7)
- Contents (page 9)
- Abbreviations (page 11)
- Introduction (page 13)
- 1. The Stage of the Resistance (page 37)
- 2. The Texts (page 93)
- 3. The Images of Authority (page 119)
- 4. Signs and Revelations (page 151)
- 5. The Image of the Enemies (page 181)
- Conclusion (page 201)
- Bibliography (page 213)
- Index (page 225)