Selected discourses of Shenoute the Great : community, theology, and social conflict in late Antique Egypt

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Selected discourses of Shenoute the Great : community, theology, and social conflict in late Antique Egypt

[Shenoute] ; translated with introductions by David Brakke and Andrew Crislip

Cambridge University Press, 2015

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-304) and indexes

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Shenoute the Great (c.347-465) led one of the largest Christian monastic communities in late antique Egypt and was the greatest native writer of Coptic in history. For approximately eight decades, Shenoute led a federation of three monasteries and emerged as a Christian leader. His public sermons attracted crowds of clergy, monks, and lay people; he advised military and government officials; he worked to ensure that his followers would be faithful to orthodox Christian teaching; and he vigorously and violently opposed paganism and the oppressive treatment of the poor by the rich. This volume presents in translation a selection of his sermons and other orations. These works grant us access to the theology, rhetoric, moral teachings, spirituality, and social agenda of a powerful Christian leader during a period of great religious and social change in the later Roman Empire.

Table of Contents

  • Shenoute's life, times, and Discourses
  • Part I. Heretics and Other Enemies of the Church: 1. And it happened one day
  • 2. As I sat on a mountain
  • 3. I am amazed
  • Part II. Shenoute as Pastor and Preacher: 4. I see your eagerness
  • 5. Some kinds of people sift dirt and Whoever seeks God will find
  • 6. The idolatrous pagans, or And we will reveal something else
  • 7. And let us also reprove
  • 8. I answered
  • 9. And after a few days
  • 10. See how clearly revealed is the foolishness of pitiless people
  • 11. Truly when I think
  • 12. A priest will never cease
  • 13. When the Word says
  • Part III. The Christian's Struggle with Satan: 14. In the night
  • 15. Because of you too, O Prince of Evil
  • 16. A beloved asked me years ago
  • 17. As we began to preach
  • Part IV. The Conflict with Gesios: 18. Not because a fox barks
  • 19. Let our eyes (translated by Stephen Emmel)
  • 20. A26
  • 21. God says through those who are His
  • 22. God is blessed.

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