Between personal and institutional religion
Subtitle: self, doctrine, and practice in late antique Eastern Christianity
By: edited by Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony and Lorenzo Perrone
Series: Cultural encounters in late antiquity and the Middle Ages -- volume 15; Cultural encounters in late antiquity and the Middle Ages -- v. 15.
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Turnhout, Belgium
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9782503541310; 9782503542010
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Doctrines; Eastern churches; Christian life; Kristet liv; Experience (Religion); Christianity; Sources; Early church; Spiritual life; History of doctrines; History; Fornkyrkan
Description: This book addresses change and continuity in late antique Eastern Christianity, as perceived through the lens of the categories of institutional religion and personal religion. The interaction between personal devotion and public identity reveals the creative aspects of a vibrant religious culture that altered the experience of Christians on both a spiritual and an institutional level. A close look at the interrelations between the personal and the institutional expressions of religion in this period attests to an ongoing revision of both the patristic literature and the monastic tradition. By approaching the period in terms of 'revision', the contributors discuss the mechanism of transformation in Eastern Christianity from a new perspective, discerning social and religious changes while navigating between the dynamics of personal and institutional religion.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: 'Trembling at the thought of shipwreck': the anxious self in the letters of Barsanuphius and John of Gaza  -- Lorenzo Perrone; title: Memory and forgetting in Romanos the Melodist's On the Newly Baptized  -- Georgia Frank; title: The Great Kanon of Andrew of Crete, the penitential Bible, and the liturgical formation of the self in the Byzantine Dark Age  -- Derek Krueger; title: Personal experience and self-exposure in Eastern Christianity: from Pseudo-Macarius to Symeon the New Theologian  -- Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony; title: The transmission of early Christian memories in late antiquity: the editorial activity of laymen and philoponoi  -- Alberto Camplani; title: The Cave of Treasures and the formation of Syriac Christian identity in late antique Mesopotamia: between tradition and innovation  -- Sergey Minov; title: The treatment of religion in sixth-century Byzantine historians and some questions of religious affiliation  -- Roger Scott; title: 'Packed with patristic testimonies': Severus of Antioch and the reinvention of the Church Fathers  -- Yonatan Moss; title: Julianism after Julian of Halicarnassus  -- Aryeh Kofsky; title: Uniformity and diversity in the early church: the date of Easter, the Jews, and imperial symbolism in the sixth century and beyond  -- Oded Irshai; title: At cross purposes: the ritual execution of Haman in late antiquity -- Hillel I. Newman.