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Spiritual Direction as a Medical Art in Early Christian Monasticism: Oxford Early Christian Studies

Autor Jonathan L. Zecher
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 oct 2022
What expectations did the women and men living in early monastic communities carry into relationships of obedience and advice? What did they hope to achieve through confession and discipline? To explore these questions, this study shows how several early Christian writers applied the logic, knowledge, and practices of Galenic medicine to develop their own practices of spiritual direction. Evagrius reads dream images as diagnostic indicators of the soul's state. John Cassian crafts a nosology of the soul using lists of passions while diagnosing the causes of wet dreams. Basil of Caesarea pits the spiritual director against the physician in a competition over diagnostic expertise. John Climacus crafts pathologies of passions through demonic family trees, while equipping his spiritual director with a physician's toolkit and imagining the monastic space as a vast clinic. These different appropriations of medical logic and metaphors not only show us the thought-world of late antique monasticism, but they would also have decisive consequences for generations of Christian subjects who would learn to see themselves as sick or well, patients or healers, within monastic communities.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198854135
ISBN-10: 0198854137
Pagini: 400
Ilustrații: black and white figures and tables
Dimensiuni: 160 x 240 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Oxford Early Christian Studies

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

...the book has provided a new benchmark for evaluating the function of ancient medicine.
Zecher's study opens up interesting perspectives for future researches.

Notă biografică

Jonathan L. Zecher completed a BA in Liberal Arts at St. John's College (Santa Fe, 2003) and completed an MA and PhD at Durham University in Patristics (2012). From 2011 to 2017 he taught in the Honors College and Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Houston. In 2017 he joined the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at the Australian Catholic University. He is co-director of ReMeDHe, an international working group for 'Religion, Medicine, Disability, and Health in Late Antiquity.'