Although an ascetic ideal of leadership had both classical and
biblical roots, it found particularly fertile soil in the monastic
fervor of the fourth through sixth centuries. Church officials were
increasingly recruited from monastic communities, and the
monk-bishop became the dominant model of ecclesiastical leadership
in the Eastern Roman Empire and Byzantium. In an interesting
paradox, Andrea Sterk explains that "from the world-rejecting
monasteries and desert hermitages of the east came many of the most
powerful leaders in the church and civil society as a whole."
Sterk explores the social, political, intellectual, and
theological grounding for this development. Focusing on four
foundational figures--Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory
of Nazianzus, and John Chrysostom--she traces the emergence of a
new ideal of ecclesiastical leadership: the merging of ascetic and
episcopal authority embodied in the monk-bishop. She also studies
church histories, legislation, and popular ascetic and
hagiographical literature to show how the ideal spread and why it
eventually triumphed. The image of a monastic bishop became the
convention in the Christian east.
"Renouncing the World Yet Leading the Church" brings new
understanding of asceticism, leadership, and the church in late
antiquity.
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