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Christian Asceticism in Late Antiquity
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Christian Asceticism in Late Antiquity

A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444). This special issue belongs to the section "Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2024) | Viewed by 1711

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Greg Peters

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Monastic Studies and Ascetical Theology, Nashotah House Theological Seminary, Nashotah, WI 53058, USA
Interests: the history and theology of Christian monasticism; the history of Christian (esp. monastic) theology; ascetical theology

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Religions on “Christian Asceticism in Late Antiquity” invites papers on any aspect of Christian asceticism (i.e., forms of bodily discipline for “spiritual purposes”) from the New Testament up to the death of Pope Gregory I the Great (604CE). Proposals investigating the practices of asceticism, the philosophy/theology of asceticism and/or the influence of pre-Christian or non-Christian asceticism on Christian ascetical practices are welcome. Since the literature on early Christian asceticism is vast, proposals on lesser-known figures and/or texts from any early Christian tradition (e.g., Syriac, Coptic, Greek or Latin) are especially desired. This Special Issue does not aim to revisit known territory but to shed light on elements of the tradition that have not received sufficient attention.

We request that, prior to submitting a manuscript, interested authors initially submit a proposed title and an abstract of 400–600 words summarizing their intended contribution. Please send this to the guest editor ([email protected]) or the Religions editorial office ([email protected]). Abstracts will be reviewed by the guest editor for the purposes of ensuring their proper fit within the scope of the Special Issue. Full manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer review.

Prof. Dr. Greg Peters
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Religions is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Christian asceticism
  • patristics
  • late antiquity
  • church fathers/mothers
  • Christian monasticism

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A Marked Absence: Pneumatic Abandonment as Desert Hermeneutic
by Micah Hogan
Religions 2023, 14(5), 642; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14050642 - 10 May 2023
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This paper examines the ways in which the Letters of Ammonas, John Cassian’s Conference IV, and the corpus of Macarius-Symeon appropriate and develop the motif of divine abandonment found in St. Antony and shifts it into a distinctly pneumatological key through Scriptural [...] Read more.
This paper examines the ways in which the Letters of Ammonas, John Cassian’s Conference IV, and the corpus of Macarius-Symeon appropriate and develop the motif of divine abandonment found in St. Antony and shifts it into a distinctly pneumatological key through Scriptural exegesis. Correcting a misconception popularized by Vladimir Lossky, this paper argues for a normative experience of divine abandonment in the Eastern Christian tradition via sustained engagement with the experience of those practitioners of desert spirituality. Engaging with the hermeneutics of Hans Georg Gadamer and following the previously established trajectories of Douglas Burton-Christie, I argue that the desert fathers, despite initial hesitation and eventual qualification, accepted the reality of pneumatic abandonment due to the interlocking pressures of Scripture and monastic experience. The paper concludes with some implications for contemporary pneumatological discussions by drawing critical parallels between the pneumatological tradition of the desert and the contemporary pneumatic doctrine of Ephraim Radner. Radner is affirmed in his insistence on individual pneumatic abandonment but is critically questioned regarding his articulation of the pneumatic abandonment of the Church through the vantage of Macarius-Symeon’s stabilized pneumatology. Full article
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