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Dreams, virtue and divine knowledge in early Christian Egypt
- Title
- Dreams, virtue and divine knowledge in early Christian Egypt / Bronwen Neil, Macquarie University, Sydney, Doru Costache, St Cyril's Coptic Orthodox Theological College, Sydney, Kevin Wagner, University of Notre Dame, Sydney.
- Author
- Neil, Bronwen
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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- Description
- ix, 214 pages : illustration; 24 cm
- Summary
- "What did dreams mean to Egyptian Christians of the first to the sixth centuries? Alexandrian philosophers, starting with Philo, Clement and Origen, developed a new approach to dreams that was to have profound effects on the spirituality of the medieval West and Byzantium. Their approach, founded on the principles of Platonism, was based on the convictions that God could send prophetic dreams and that these could be interpreted by people of sufficient virtue. In the fourth century, the Alexandrian approach was expanded by Athanasius and Evagrius to include a more holistic psychological understanding of what dreams meant for spiritual progress. The ideas that God could be known in dreams and that dreams were linked to virtue flourished in the context of Egyptian desert monasticism. This volume traces that development and its influence on early Egyptian experiences of the divine in dreams"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-204) and indexes.
- Contents
- An introduction to Greco-Roman traditions on dreams and virtue / Bronwen Neil and / Kevin Wagner -- The development of an Alexandrian tradition / Bronwen Neil -- Sleep, dreams and soul-travel: Athanasius within the tradition / Doru Costache -- Synesius of Cyrene and Neoplatonic dream theory / Kevin Wagner -- Expanding beyond the Egyptian ascetic tradition / Bronwen Neil.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-8613
- ISBN
- 9781108481182
- 1108481183
- 9781108740432
- 110874043X
- LCCN
- 2019002333
- OCLC
- 1066053580
- Author
- Neil, Bronwen, author.
- Title
- Dreams, virtue and divine knowledge in early Christian Egypt / Bronwen Neil, Macquarie University, Sydney, Doru Costache, St Cyril's Coptic Orthodox Theological College, Sydney, Kevin Wagner, University of Notre Dame, Sydney.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-204) and indexes.
- Chronological Term
- 30-600
- Added Author
- Costache, Doru, author.Wagner, Kevin (Theologian), author.
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781108646802
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-8613