medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Agreed, it is intriguing. Marcus discusses the rise of monasticisms in
early Christianity in this same chapter of his book, and ties certain
developments within the institutions (if that is not too strong a word
to use) of monasticism to this same phenomenon. I recommend the book
highly. In fact, it is high time I read it again myself.
Best,
MW
Mark F. Williams
Dept. of Classics
Calvin College
Grand Rapids, MI
USA 49546
"Keep your stick on the ice."
-Red Green
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Intriguing. I also have seen this change tied to the origins of
eremitical
monasticism in places like Egypt. Going from the danger of death to
the
struggles involved in renouncing the world.
Tom Izbicki
At 08:55 AM 3/7/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
culture
>
> > Perhaps it is the concept of "confessor" that
> > changed, from confessing the faith through
> > sufferings (but not death) to confessing the faith
> > against error.
> > Tom Izbicki
>
>This is almost exactly the point made by Robert Markus in his book
*The
>End of Ancient Christianity* (Cambridge, 1990), esp. chapter 5. He
>cites impressive evidence of a sort of crisis of identity that hit
the
>church when martyrs ceased to be made.
>
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