
John Rufus and the World Vision of Anti-Chalcedonean Culture
Second Revised Edition
Jan-Eric Steppa(Author)
Gorgias Press
Published on 11. July 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
232 pages
978-1-4632-0389-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book deals with the works of the anti-Chalcedonian hagiographer, John Rufus, and traces the basic motives behind the opposition against the council of Chalcedon in the fifth century through an attempt to reconstruct a specific anti-Chalcedonian culture. As part of the eastern monastic culture, it considered itself a counter-culture guarding purity of ascetic conduct and orthodoxy from being defiled by the perverseness of the majority. Reading John Rufus' hagiography, we find ourselves in the midst of a cosmological warfare between good and evil, where the great heroes of the anti-Chalcedonian movement enter into history as God's warriors against the rebellion of demons and heretics.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Piscataway
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4632-0389-4 (9781463203894)
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