The text of a Coptic monastic discourse, On Love and self-control : its story from the Fourth Century to the Twenty-First /

The text of a Coptic monastic discourse, On Love and self-control : its story from the Fourth Century to the Twenty-First /

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Main Author: Schneider, Carolyn M., 1963- (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English
Coptic

Published: Athens, Ohio : Collegeville, Minnesota : Cistercian Publications ; Liturgical Press, [2017].

Series: Cistercian studies series ; 272.

Subjects:

Athanasius, > Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria, > -373.
On love and self-control > Criticism, Textual.
Love > Relgious aspects > Christianity.
Self-control > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Coptic monasticism and religious orders.

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Call Number: BX137.2 .S346 2017

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Table of Contents:
  • The language and fourth-century date of the text
  • The Pachomian Koininia: The community to which On Love and Self-Control was first addressed
  • On Love and Self-Control and its codex (MONB.CP)
  • Issues of authorship
  • The use of the discourse On Love and Self-Control beyond the seventh century
  • The dismemberment of the codex in the nineteenth century and its current reconstruction
  • On Love and Self-Control: A translation.