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Moralia et Ascetica Armeniaca - The Oft-Repeated Discourses (Hardcover)
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Moralia et Ascetica Armeniaca - The Oft-Repeated Discourses (Hardcover)
Series: Fathers of the Church Series
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The twenty-three discourses presented in this volume have a long
textual history that ascribes them to St. Gregory the Illuminator
of Armenia (d. 328), a prevalent view that lasted through the
nineteenth century. Armenian scholarship through the last century
has tended to ascribe them to St. Mashtots', the inventor of the
Armenian alphabet (d. 440). In his critical introduction to this
first-ever English translation of the discourses, Terian presents
them as an ascetic text by an anonymous abbot writing near the end
of the sixth century. The very title in Armenian, Ya?axapatum
?a?k', literally, "Oft-Repeated Discourses," further validates
their ascetic environment, where they were repeatedly related to
novices. For want of answers to introductory questions regarding
authorship and date, and because of the pervasive grammatical
difficulties of the text, the document has remained largely unknown
in scholarship. The discourses include many of the Eastern Fathers'
favorite theological themes. They are heavily punctuated with
biblical quotations and laced with recurring biblical images and
phraseology; the doctrinal and functional centrality of the
Scriptures is emphasized throughout. They are replete with
traditional Christian moral teachings that have acquired elements
of moral philosophy transmitted through Late Antiquity. Echoes of
St. Basil's thought are heard in several of them, and some evidence
of the author's dependence on the Armenian version of the saint's
Rules, translated around the turn of the sixth century, is
apparent. On the whole they show how Christians were driven by the
Johannine love-command and the Pauline Spirit-guided practice of
virtuous living, ever maturing in the ethos of an in-group
solidarity culminating in monasticism.
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