Ascetic Passions

Emotions in Early Christian Egypt
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-74474-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Critical Approaches to Early Christianity

Ascetic Passions: Emotions in Early Christian Egypt reveals the role of emotions in shaping early Christian theology, community, and monastic practices in Egypt. Drawing from biblical interpretation, theological treatises, and Coptic monastic and apocryphal literature, Crislip explores how emotions such as envy, anger, sadness, and joy influenced Christian life and thought. The book highlights how early Christians saw emotions as both spiritual challenges and tools for moral growth. Discussions of figures like Evagrius of Pontus and Shenoute showcase how emotional regulation, community, and identity were central to monastic life. The volume offers new insights into the emotional landscape of late antiquity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crislip, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Eklektizismus, Esoterik, Anthroposophie, Theosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Crislip, Ph.D. (2002), Yale University, is Professor and Blake Chair in the History of Christianity at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has published widely on early Christianity, including Thorns in the Flesh: Illness and Sanctity in Early Christianity (Penn, 2013).