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The Canons of Our Fathers by Bentley Layton, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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The Canons of Our Fathers by Bentley Layton, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
The Canons of Our Fathers by Bentley Layton, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

The Canons of Our Fathers by Bentley Layton, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Bentley Layton

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This book is the first publication of a very early collection of Christian monastic rules from Roman Egypt. Designed for the so-called White Monastery Federation, a community of monks and nuns who banded together about 360 CE, the rules are quoted by the great monastic leader Shenoute ofAtripe in his writings of the fourth and fifth century. These rules provide new and intimate access to the earliest phases of Christian communal (cenobitic) monasticism. In this volume, Bentley Layton presents for the first time the Coptic text of the rules, amounting to five hundred and ninety-five entries, accompanied by a clear and exact English translation. Four preliminary chapters discuss the character of the rules in their historical and social context, andpresent new evidence for the founding of the monastic federation. From passing remarks in the rules, Layton paints a brilliant picture of monastic daily life and ascetic practice, organized around five general topics: the monastery as a physical plant, the human makeup of the community, the patternof ascetic observances, the hierarchy of authority, and the daily liturgy. The Canons of Our Fathers will be a fundamental resource for readers interested in Christian life in late antiquity, ascetic practices, and the history of monasticism in all its forms. | The Canons of Our Fathers by Bentley Layton, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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