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
Cambridge University Press, 2019
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Originally published: 2015
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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