Teachers in Late Antique Christianity
Author : Peter Gemeinhardt
Publisher :
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 31,44 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Christian education
ISBN : 9783161559150
Author : Peter Gemeinhardt
Publisher :
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 31,44 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Christian education
ISBN : 9783161559150
Author : Peter Gemeinhardt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 25,53 MB
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1317145909
This book studies the complex attitude of late ancient Christians towards classical education. In recent years, the different theoretical positions that can be found among the Church Fathers have received particular attention: their statements ranged from enthusiastic assimilation to outright rejection, the latter sometimes masking implicit adoption. Shifting attention away from such explicit statements, this volume focuses on a series of lesser-known texts in order to study the impact of specific literary and social contexts on late ancient educational views and practices. By moving attention from statements to strategies this volume wishes to enrich our understanding of the creative engagement with classical ideals of education. The multi-faceted approach adopted here illuminates the close connection between specific educational purposes on the one hand, and the possibilities and limitations offered by specific genres and contexts on the other. Instead of seeing attitudes towards education in late antique texts as applications of theoretical positions, it reads them as complex negotiations between authorial intent, the limitations of genre, and the context of performance.
Author : Robert Austin Markus
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 22,20 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 9780472109975
Sixteen essays explore the end of ancient Christianity
Author : Jan Stenger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 30,23 MB
Release : 2022-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198869789
Education in Late Antiquity explores how the Christian and pagan writers of the Graeco-Roman world between c. 300 and 550 CE rethought the role of intellectual and ethical formation. Analysing explicit and implicit theorization of education, it traces changing attitudes towards the aims and methods of teaching, learning, and formation. Influential scholarship has seen the postclassical education system as an immovable and uniform field. In response, this book argues that writers of the period offered substantive critiques of established formal education and tried to reorient ancient approaches to learning. By bringing together a wide range of discourses and genres, Education in Late Antiquity reveals that educational thought was implicated in the ideas and practices of wider society. Educational ideologies addressed central preoccupations of the time, including morality, religion, the relationship with others and the world, and concepts of gender and the self. The idea that education was a transformative process that gave shape to the entire being of a person, instead of imparting formal knowledge and skills, was key. The debate revolved around attaining happiness, the good life, and fulfilment, thus orienting education toward the development of the notion of humanity within the person. By exploring the discourse on education, this book recovers the changing horizons of Graeco-Roman thought on learning and formation from the fourth to the sixth centuries
Author : Edward J. Watts
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 21,74 MB
Release : 2008-09-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 0520258169
This lively and wide-ranging study of the men and ideas of late antique education explores the intellectual and doctrinal milieux in the two great cities of Athens and Alexandria from the second to the sixth centuries to shed new light on the interaction between the pagan cultural legacy and Christianity. While previous scholarship has seen Christian reactions to pagan educational culture as the product of an empire-wide process of development, Edward J. Watts crafts two narratives that reveal how differently education was shaped by the local power structures and urban contexts of each city. Touching on the careers of Herodes Atticus, Proclus, Damascius, Ammonius Saccas, Origen, Hypatia, and Olympiodorus; and events including the Herulian sack of Athens, the closing of the Athenian Neoplatonic school under Justinian, the rise of Arian Christianity, and the sack of the Serapeum, he shows that by the sixth century, Athens and Alexandria had two distinct, locally determined, approaches to pagan teaching that had their roots in the unique historical relationships between city and school.
Author : A.D.(Doug) Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 29,33 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1136617388
In this book A.D. Lee charts the rise to dominance of Christianity in the Roman empire. Using translated texts he explains the fortunes of both Pagans and Christians from the upheavals of the 3rd Century to the increasingly tumultuous times of the 5th and 6th centuries. The book also examines important themes in Late Antiquity such as the growth of monasticism, the emerging power of bishops and the development of pilgrimage, and looks at the fate of other significant religious groups including the Jews, Zoroastrians and Manichaeans.
Author : Lewis Ayres
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1232 pages
File Size : 23,17 MB
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1108871917
This book is for scholars and students of the ideas, literatures, and cultures of early Christianity and late antiquity, ancient philosophers, and historians of theology. It offers new perspectives on early Christian modes of knowing and ordering knowledge in relation to changing discourses, institutions, and material culture of late antiquity.
Author : Jaclyn L. Maxwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 43,85 MB
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1108832261
Examines how the apostles' manual labour, simplicity, and humility affected the worldviews of upper-class Christians in Late Antiquity.
Author : Andrew Todd Crislip
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Church history
ISBN : 9780472114740
Brings to light for the first time the innovative healing practices of monasteries and their role in the development of Western medical tradition
Author : Alex Fogleman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 12,92 MB
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1009377396
Provides a new history of catechesis in early Latin Christianity that foregrounds core questions of knowledge, faith, and teaching.