Remembering poemen remembering: The desert fathers and the spirituality of memory

Church History

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 483-517

  Harmless, William ^a  

^a SPRING HILL COLLEGE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/3169395     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. The classic study is by H. G. Evelyn White, The Monasteries of the Wadi 'n Natrûn, part 2, The History of the Monasteries of Nitria and of Scetis (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition, 1932)
2. e siècle," Orientalia Christiana Periodica 30 (1964): 129-17
3. and Tim Vivian, "The Monasteries of the Wadi Natrun, Egypt: A Personal and Monastic Journey," American Benedictine Review 49 (1998): 3-32
4. and Graham Gould, The Desert Fathers on Monastic Community, Oxford Early Christian Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993)
5. See also the incisive survey by Antoine Guillaumont, "L'enseignement spirituel des moines d'Égypte: La formation d'une tradition," reprinted in Études sur la spiritualité de l'Orient chrétien, Spiritualité orientale 66 (Bégrolle-en-Mauges: Abbaye de Bellefontaine, 1996), 81-92
6. Burton-Christie, Word in the Desert, vii-viii
7. Peter Brown, The World of Late Antiquity, AD 150-750 (New York: Norton, 1971), 100
8. Ward's Sayings of the Desert Fathers offers a complete translation into English
9. For an overview, see J. Pollok, "The Present State of Studies on the Apophthegmata Patrum: An Outline of Samuel Rubenson's and Graham Gould's Perspectives," in Marek Starowicyski, ed., The Spirituality of Ancient Monasticism (Cracow: Tyniec, 1995), 79-90
10. e siècles," Irénikon 54 (1981): 320-30
11. Wilhelm Bousset, Apophthegmata: Studien zur Geschichte des ältesten Mönchtums (Tübingen: Mohr, 1923), 68-71
12. Guy, "Introduction," Apophtegmes des Pères, SC 387:77-79
13. See Antoine Guillaumont, "Le Problème des deux Macaires," Irénikon 48 (1975): 41-59
14. Gabriel Bunge, "Evagre le Pontique et les deux Macaires," Irénikon 56 (1983): 215-27, 323-60
15. Lucien Regnault, "Aux origines des collections d'Apophtegmes," Studia Patristica 18 (1989): 61-74
16. cf. Socrates, Historia ecclesiastica 4.23 (PG 67:28-872)
17. AP John Kolobos 5, 25, 30, 31, 32
18. Cf. Verba seniorum 5.9 (PL 73:876)
19. Nicholas Kataskerperios, Life of Saint Cyril of Philea, cited in Hausherr, Penthos, 18
20. For examples in the mouths of others, see AP Antony 33
21. For a chart correlating the Systematic Collection with the Alphabetical, see Guy, Recherches, 126-61
22. e siècle (Paris: Hachette, 1990), 75-94
23. Peter Brown, The Body and Society (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988), 218-22
24. Cf. AP John Kolobos 3
25. Driscoll, "Exegetical Procedures," 163
26. Chitty, Desert A City, 69-70
27. Guillaumont, "Le problème des deux Macaires," Irénikon 48 (1975): 41-59
28. Regnault, "Poemen," Coptic Encyclopedia 6:1983-84
29. The principal study is by Regnault, "Aux origines des collections d'Apophtegmes," Studia Patristica 18.2 (Leuven: Peeters, 1989), 61-74
30. see also J. M. Sauget, "Une Nouvelle Collection éthiopienne d'Apopthegmata Patrum," Orientalia Christiana periodica 31 (1965): 177-88
31. For chapters that contain only a single story, see Eth. Coll. mon. 4 = AP Arsenius 33
32. Eth. Coll. mon. 8 = AP Daniel 7
33. For chapters that contain excerpts from sermons or treatises, see Eth. Coll. mon. 16 = Moses the Black, Seven Headings of Ascetic Conduct (PG 65:288-89)
34. Eth. Coll. mon. 26 = Pseudo-Nilus (that is, Evagrius Ponticus), De octo spiritibus malitiae (PG 79:1145-1164)
35. Regnault, "Aux origines," 64. Three others (13.35, 14.63, 14.64) contain first-person reminiscences in sayings that start off impersonally
36. Eth. Coll. num. 14.64 (CSCO 238:125)
37. Eth. Coll. mon. 13.6 (CSCO 238:84)
38. AP Benjamin 4, Epiphanius 3, Lucius 1
39. For a discussion, see Regnault, "La prière continuelle 'monologistos' dans la littérature apophtegmatique," Irénikon 47 (1974): 467-93
40. Gabriel Bunge," 'Priez sans cesse': aux origines de la prière hésychaste," Studia Monastics 30 (1988): 7-16
41. Eth. Coll. mon. 14.63 (CSCO 238:125)
42. For example: AP Antony 19
43. Benedicta Ward, "Traditions of Spiritual Guidance: Spiritual Direction in the Desert Fathers," The Way 24 (1984): 61-70
44. Gould, Desert Fathers on Monastic Community, 21
45. for the text, see E. Amélineau, Histoire des Monastères de la Basse-Egypte, Annales du Musée Guimet 25 (Paris: Leroux, 1894), 379
46. the translation is by Maged S. Mikail and Tim Vivian, "Zacharias of Sakhâ: An Encomium on the Life of John the Little," Coptic Church Review 18 (1997): 46
47. Athanasius, Vita Antonii 88 (SC 400:362)
48. Gregg, Life of Antony, 95
49. On this issue, see David Brakke, " 'Outside the Places, Within the Truth': Athanasius of Alexandria and the Localization of the Holy," in Pilgrimage and Holy Space in Late Antique Egypt, ed. David Frankfurter (Leiden: Brill, 1998), esp. 453-63
50. On Evagrius's life and works, see Antoine Guillaumont and Claire Guillaumont, Évagre le Politique: Traité Practique ou le Moine, SC 170 (Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 1971), 21-112
51. On Evagrius as an Origenist, see Antoine Guillaumont, Les "Kephalaia Gnostica" d'Évagre le Politique et l'histoire de l'origénisme chez les grecs el chez les syriens, Patristica Sorbonensia 5 (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1962)
52. Elizabeth A. Clark, The Origenist Controversy: The Cultural Construction of an Early Christian Debate (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992)
53. Evagrius, Praktikos 91 (SC 171:692); trans. Bamberger, 39