In Militia Dei? A Sociohistorical Perspective on the Pachomian Koinonia
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Christian Barthel
Professur Geschichte des Altertums
Abstract
This paper draws on sociohistorical methods to explore the overlapping, and at times contradictory, discourses on how to form and structure the religious community that eventually coalesced into the Pachomian Koinonia. It discusses the impact and extant to which established institutions like the Roman army, family and great estates influenced the formation of this monastic movement.
About the author
Professur Geschichte des Altertums
Acknowledgment
This paper began to take shape during an Honors-Fellowship of the Dahlem Research School and grew exponentially in my time as an associated member of Hartmut Leppin’s Leibniz project “Polyphony of Late Antiquity Christianity” located at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. I am grateful to Hartmut Leppin, Tonio Sebastian Richter, Philip Forness and Roland Steinacher for their thoughts and comments on earlier iterations of this paper. My thanks also go to the discussants at Frankfurt, Boston and Muenster, where I presented parts of my argument. All remaining errors are of course my own.
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- The Coptic Translation of Epiphanius of Salamis’s Ancoratus and the Origenist Controversy in Upper Egypt
- Diodore of Tarsus, Theodore of Mopsuestia, and the Interpretation of the Messianic Psalms
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