The making of monastic demonology: Three ascetic teachers on withdrawal and resistance

Church History

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 20-48

  Brakke, David ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 62449263794     PISSN: 00096407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3654409     Document Type: Article

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1. idem, Pachomius: The Making of a Community in Fourth-Century Egypt, Transformations of the Classical Heritage 6 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985)
2. Douglas Burton-Christie, The Word in the Desert: Scripture and the Quest for Holiness in Early Christian Monasticism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993)
3. Graham Gould, The Desert Fathers on Monastic Community, Oxford Early Christian Studies (Oxford: Clarendon, 1993)
4. Susanna Elm, "Virgins of God": The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity, Oxford Classical Monographs (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994), 226-372
5. The changing scholarly approaches are well surveyed by Elizabeth A. Clark, Reading Renunciation: Asceticism and Scripture in Early Christianity (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), 14-38
6. Rousseau, Pachomius, 134-41
7. Peter Brown, The Making of Late Antiquity (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978), 81-101
8. Richard Valantasis, "Daemons and the Perfecting of the Monk's Body: Monastic Anthropology, Daemonology, and Asceticism," Semeia 58 (1992): 47-79
9. On the wisdom style of Antony's letters, see Rubenson, Letters, 49
10. William R. Schoedel, "Jewish Wisdom and the Formation of the Christian Ascetic," in Aspects of Wisdom in Judaism and Early Christianity, ed. Robert L. Wilken (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1975), 169-99
11. see Richard Valantasis, Spiritual Guides of the Third Century: A Semiotic Study of the Guide-Disciple Relationship in Christianity, Neoplatonism, Hermetism, and Gnosticism, Harvard Dissertations in Religion 27 (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991)
12. From among a substantial body of literature, see esp. Hans von Campenhausen, Ecclesiastical Authority and Spiritual Power in the Church of the First Three Centuries (London: Black, 1969), 194-212
13. Peter Brown, The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity, Lectures on the History of Religions 13 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988), 103-108
14. Fowden, Egyptian Hermes, 168-76
15. Hermann Dörries, "Die Vita Antonii als Geschichtsquelle" (1949)
16. Rubenson, Letters, 64-68, 86-88
17. Colin H. Roberts, Manuscript, Society and Belief in Early Christian Egypt, Schweich Lectures of the British Academy 1977 (London: Oxford University Press, 1979), 26-48
18. Arthur J. Droge, Homer or Moses? Early Christian Interpretations of the History of Culture, Hermeneutische Untersuchungen zur Theologie 26 (Tübingen: J. C. B. Möhr, 1989), 104-108
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20. Dawson, Allegorical Readers, 139
21. Gospel According to Philip 53:23-27; 54:18-25
22. Gospel According to Philip 62:26-35; 64:22-28
23. (Rubenson, Letters, 208, 228)
24. see ep. 75 (Rubenson, Letters, 225)
25. Mark Sheridan, "Il mondo spirituale e intellettuale del primo monachesimo egiziano," in L'Egitto cristiano: aspetti e problemi in età tardo-antica, ed. Alberto Camplani, Studia Ephemeridis Augustinianum 56 (Rome: Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, 1997), 177-216, at 197-99
26. On the distinction between incorporeality and immateriality in ancient thought, see Dale B. Martin, The Corinthian Body (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), 6-15
27. G. J. M. Bartelink, "Les démons comme brigands," Vigiliae Christianae 21 (1967): 12-24
28. Interpretation of Knowledge 6:19
29. Tim Vivian, " 'Everything Made by God is Good': A Letter from Saint Athanasius to the Monk Amoun," Église et Théologie 24 (1993): 75-108, at 80-84
30. and David Brakke, "The Problematization of Nocturnal Emissions in Early Christian Syria, Egypt, and Gaul," Journal of Early Christian Studies 3 (1995): 419-60, at 436-38
31. Ward, Sayings, 11)
32. On Antony and wisdom literature from Nag Hammadi, see Wincenty Myszor, "An-tonius-Briefe und Nag-Hammadi-Texte," Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum 32 (1989): 72-88
33. In general, see Rousseau, Ascetics, Authority, and the Church, 33-67
34. Klejna, "Antonius und Ammonas," 312-20
35. The Syriac text was edited by Michael Kmosko, Ammonii Eremitae Epistolae, Patrologia Orientalia (PO) 10.6 (Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1913)
36. see PO 11:447.4-7)
37. Origen, Princ. 3.2.4 (SC 268:170)
38. Hom. Luc. 35.3-5 (SC 87:414-18)
39. On the notion of one's "invisible companion," see Brown, Making of Late Antiquity, 68-71, 89-91
40. On asceticism's requirement of demons and authority in the Byzantine state, see Averil Cameron, "Ascetic Closure and the End of Antiquity," in Asceticism, eds. Wimbush and Valantasis, 147-61, at 157-58
41. V. Ant. 49.1-4 (SC 400:266-68)
42. See Goehring, "Encroaching Desert," 86, on the desert fostering the guide-disciple pattern and its characteristic literary form, the apophthegmatum
43. See Sheridan, "Il mondo spirituale," 201-207
44. idem, "On the Monastic Cell," 89 n. 18)
45. L. S. B. MacCoull, "Paul of Tamma and the Monastic Priesthood," Vigiliae Christianae 53 (1999): 316-20
46. Untitled Work 101 (Opere, 92-94, 116)
47. Paul of Tamma, On the Cell 23, 25 (Opere, 90-92)
48. On Humility 10
49. On the Cell 61 (Opere, 122, 128, 96)
50. pace Vivian, "Four Works," 108
51. Wolf-Peter Funk, "Ein doppelt überliefertes Stück spätägyptischer Weisheit," Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 103 (1976): 8-21
52. Michel Pezin, "Nouveau fragment copte concernant Paul de Tamma (P. Sorbonne inv. 2632)," in Christianisme d'Égypte: Hommages à René Georges Coquin, ed. Jean-Marc Rosenstiehl (Louvain: Peeters, 1995), 15-20
53. Deep-rooted: see Michel Foucault, The Care of the Self, vol. 3 of The History of Sexuality (New York: Random House, 1986), 71-95
54. Rousseau, Ascetics, Authority and the Church, 45
55. Athanasius, V. Ant. 94.2 (SC 400:376)