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Dorotheos of Gaza and the Discourse of Healing in Gazan Monasticism (Hardcover, New edition)
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Dorotheos of Gaza and the Discourse of Healing in Gazan Monasticism (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: American University Studies, 357
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Serving as a dynamic figure in the monastic school, Dorotheos of
Gaza transformed the traditional understanding of healing in the
spiritual life. Gazan monastic teachers, Isaiah of Scetis,
Barsanuphius, John, and Dorotheos, utilized this discourse of
healing to instruct and guide their followers in the monastic life.
As a predominant part of human existence, sickness and suffering
were sought to be understood and interpreted. For some teachers,
healing was purely a metaphor for spiritual renewal brought about
through illness and pain. For others, physical distress was
instructive for renewed endurance and trust. Driven by a new
distinction, Dorotheos pursued the concept of healing as an
extension beyond the metaphor and into the physical reality
experienced in the body. Encouraging his followers to pursue this
idea, he further developed the importance of healing in his
tradition by emphasizing the significance of physical and spiritual
well-being. The life of healing he envisioned was a life full of
virtue, carefully navigating all disruptions of life, and
strengthening the soul and the body.
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