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Primordial Landscapes, Incorruptible Bodies - Desert Asceticism and the Christian Appropriation of Greek Ideas on Geography, Bodies, and Immortality (Hardcover, New edition)
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Primordial Landscapes, Incorruptible Bodies - Desert Asceticism and the Christian Appropriation of Greek Ideas on Geography, Bodies, and Immortality (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: American University Studies, 272
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As the first monk in the desert, Antony became an early Christian
superstar, eclipsing his many ascetic predecessors. The
introduction of asceticism into the wilderness also represented an
encounter between Christian and Hellenistic ideas. For centuries
Greeks had considered the uncultivated geography intrinsically
primordial, a chaotic place where man struggled to remain human.
The wilderness represented an eternal ordeal, where man always
faced fierce beasts, disorder, and death, but also where
simultaneously he could attain boundless wealth, wisdom, and even
physical immortality. Through Athanasius of Alexandria's
fourth-century biography of Antony, we learn how the Christian
appropriation of Greek ideas on geography, bodies and immortality
raised asceticism to an entirely new level. Placed in his
uncultivated landscape, Antony became a true martyr, an athlete of
God, and a holy man able to retrieve the bodily incorruptibility
lost in the Fall, which all Christians could look forward to at the
end of times. In this way Athanasius employed a traditional Greek
worldview to demonstrate the superiority of Christianity over
Paganism, which never promised ordinary people anything but an
eternal existence as dead and disembodied souls.
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