Monastic Bodies Discipline and Salvation in Shenoute of Atripe
Caroline T. Schroeder "Caroline Schroeder presents the first
analysis of the ascetic ideology of one of the most important
figures in early Egyptian monasticism, Shenoute of Atripe."--David
Brakke, Indiana University "This remarkable study focuses on the
leadership style . . . developed by Shenoute of Atripe, the third
leader of the elaborate complexes for men and women monastics
established in the mid-fourth century in Upper Egypt."--"Journal of
Religion" Shenoute of Atripe led the White Monastery, a community
of several thousand male and female Coptic monks in Upper Egypt,
between approximately 395 and 465 C.E. Shenoute's letters, sermons,
and treatises--one of the most detailed bodies of writing to
survive from any early monastery--provide an unparalleled resource
for the study of early Christian monasticism and asceticism. In
"Monastic Bodies," Caroline Schroeder offers an in-depth
examination of the asceticism practiced at the White Monastery
using diverse sources, including monastic rules, theological
treatises, sermons, and material culture. Schroeder details
Shenoute's arduous disciplinary code and philosophical structure,
including the belief that individual sin corrupted not only the
individual body but the entire "corporate body" of the community.
Thus the purity of the community ultimately depended upon the
integrity of each individual monk. Shenoute's ascetic discourse
focused on purity of the body, but he categorized as impure not
only activities such as sex but any disobedience and other more
general transgressions. Shenoute emphasized the important practices
of discipline, or askesis, in achieving this purity.
Contextualizing Shenoute within the wider debates about asceticism,
sexuality, and heresy that characterized late antiquity, Schroeder
compares his views on bodily discipline, monastic punishments, the
resurrection of the body, the incarnation of Christ, and monastic
authority with those of figures such as Cyril of Alexandria,
Paulinus of Nola, and Pachomius. Caroline T. Schroeder teaches at
the University of the Pacific. Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient
Religion 2007 248 pages 6 x 9 5 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-3990-4 Cloth
$79.95s 52.00 ISBN 978-0-8122-0338-7 Ebook $79.95s 52.00 World
Rights Religion, Biography Short copy: An in-depth examination of
the asceticism practiced at the White Monastery in Upper Egypt in
the fifth century, using diverse sources, including monastic rules,
theological treatises, sermons, letters, and material culture.
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