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Tables of Contents for Desert Christians
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Abbreviations
xxi
A Note on the Notes and Bibliographies
xxiii
Part I. The World of Early Monasticism
1 Roman Egypt
3
22
Alexandria
4
3
The Gift of the Nile
7
4
Early Egyptian Christianity
11
6
Monasticism in Egypt: Leaders, Writers, and Texts
17
3
Notes
20
1
Bibliography
21
3
APPENDIX 1.1. Papyrus: Women and Monasticism
24
1
2. Patriarchs, Councils, and Controversies: 300-451
25
32
Alexander, Arius, and the Council of Nicaea
25
8
Athanasius
33
4
Theophilus
37
1
Cyril and the Council of Ephesus
38
3
Dioscorus and the Council of Chalcedon
41
2
Notes
43
1
Bibliography
44
4
APPENDIX 2.1. The Creed of the Council of Nicaea (325)
48
2
APPENDIX 2.2. Texts from the Council of Ephesus (431)
50
3
APPENDIX 2.3. The Definition of the Council of Chalcedon (451)
53
4
Part II. Antony and Pachomius
3. The Life of Antony: Text and Context
57
28
The "Wrath" of 356
57
3
A Physician For Egypt
60
8
Audience, Sources, and Genre
68
6
Notes
74
2
Bibliography
76
2
APPENDIX 3.1. The Letters of Saint Antony
78
4
APPENDIX 3.2. The Letters of Ammonas
82
3
4. The Life of Antony: Themes and Influence
85
30
Christ's Victory over Demons
85
3
God Enfleshed, Humanity Deified
88
5
The Politics of Orthodoxy
93
4
Antony in the Latin West
97
3
Notes
100
3
Bibliography
103
2
APPENDIX 4.1. Jerome, The Life of Paul of Thebes
105
3
APPENDIX 4.2. The Many Faces of Antony
108
3
APPENDIX 4.3. Did Athanasius Really Write the Life of Antony?
111
4
5. Pachomius
115
52
The Sources
116
2
Early Career
118
4
The Koinonia
122
10
Later Career
132
4
Theodore and Horsiesius
136
5
Notes
141
7
Bibliography
148
3
APPENDIX 5.1. The Versions of the Life of Pachomius
151
2
APPENDIX 5.2. The Letters of Pachomius
153
2
APPENDIX 5.3. The Letter of Ammon
155
3
APPENDIX 5.4. The Testament of Horsiesius
158
2
APPENDIX 5.5. Did the Nag Hammadi Library Belong to the Pachomians?
160
7
Part III. The Desert Fathers
6. The Apophthegmata Patrum: Text and Context
167
26
Abba Antony
167
2
The Collections: Alphabetical and Systematic
169
2
"Abba, Give Me a Word"
171
2
Scetis
173
7
Notes
180
3
Bibliography
183
4
APPENDIX 6.1. The Many Languages of Desert Literature
187
4
APPENDIX 6.2. Macarius the Egyptian, Letter to the Sons of God
191
2
7. The Apophthegmata Patrum: Portraits
193
34
Abba Macarius the Egyptian
194
2
Abba John the Little
196
7
Abba Moses the Ethiopian
203
3
Abba Poemen
206
5
Notes
211
4
Bibliography
215
2
APPENDIX 7.1. The Famous and Not-So-Famous of the Alphabetical Collection
217
3
APPENDIX 7.2. The Virtues of Abba Macarius the Great
220
2
APPENDIX 7.3. The "Tree of Obedience"
222
2
APPENDIX 7.4. Zacharius of Sakha, Encomium on the Life of John the Little
224
3
8. The Apophthegmata Patrum: Themes
227
48
Hesychia
228
1
The Manifestation of Thoughts
229
3
The Demon of Lust
232
4
Anger
236
2
Blessed Are the Sorrowful
238
3
Visions
241
3
Scripture
244
4
From Oral Word to Written Text
248
3
Notes
251
4
Bibliography
255
3
APPENDIX 8.1. The Systematic Collections of the Apophthegmata Patrum
258
3
APPENDIX 8.2. Paul of Tamma, On the Cell
261
2
APPENDIX 8.3. Concerning Thoughts (Peri Logismon)
263
2
APPENDIX 8.4. Isaiah of Scetis, Asceticon
265
5
APPENDIX 8.5. The Ethiopic Collectio Monastica
270
5
9. The Histories
275
Nitria
279
2
Kellia
281
1
Other Sites
282
2
Portraits: The Lausiac History
284
6
Signs and Wonders: The History of the Monks in Egypt
290
9
Notes
299
4
Bibliography
303
2
APPENDIX 9.1. The Coptic Palladiana
305
6
Part IV. Monastic Theologians
10. Evagrius Ponticus: Ascetical Theory
311
34
The Desert Calligrapher
312
4
The Art of the Chapter
316
6
The Eight Evil Thoughts
322
5
Combat with Demons
327
3
Notes
330
3
Bibliography
333
6
APPENDIX 10.1. Evagrius's Number Symbolism
339
3
APPENDIX 10.2. Evagrius Ponticus, Sententiae ad Virginem
342
3
11. Evagrius Ponticus: Mystical Theology
345
28
Mapping the Journey to God
345
5
Pure Prayer
350
4
Cosmology
354
5
The Origenist Controversy
359
5
Notes
364
3
Bibliography
367
1
APPENDIX 11.1. A Glossary of Evagrian Spirituality
368
2
APPENDIX 11.2. Evagrius Ponticus, Skemmata
370
3
12. John Cassian
373
44
Cassian the Silent
373
5
The Institutes
378
8
The Conferences
386
3
Purity of Heart
389
3
Unceasing Prayer
392
6
Map Making
398
5
Notes
403
5
Bibliography
408
2
APPENDIX 12.1. Sulpicius Severus, Life of Martins of Tours
410
2
APPENDIX 12.2. Eucherius of Lyons, In Praise of the Desert
412
5
Part V. Reflections
13. Monastic Origins: Perspectives, Discoveries, and Disputed Questions
417
54
Antony and the Apotaktikoi
418
5
Pachomius and the Melitians
423
2
Monasticism outside Egypt: Syria, Cappadocia, and Palestine
425
10
Monasticism outside Christianity: The Manichees
435
5
Monasticism Underreported: Virgins, Widows, and Ammas
440
5
Monasticism Overlooked: Shenoute of Atripe
445
3
Notes
448
5
Bibliography
453
6
APPENDIX 13.1. Papyrus: Earliest Use of the Word "Monk"
459
1
APPENDIX 13.2. Papyrus: Melitian Monasticism
460
2
APPENDIX 13.3. Theodoret of Cyrrhus, The Religious History
462
2
APPENDIX 13.4. Manichees in Egypt: New Discoveries
464
2
APPENDIX 13.5. Monks Despised: Ancient Views
466
2
APPENDIX 13.6. Monks Despised: Edward Gibbon
468
3
Afterword
471
4
Index
475