This is the first modern study in English of the life and thought
of the ninth-century Byzantine theologian and monastic reformer,
Theodore the Stoudite. Cholij provides a guide to and a complete
analysis of all the primary source material attributed to Theodore.
If the monastic leader is considered in the context of the
tradition to which he belonged, it is clear that his religious
formation occurred within a widely established school of Basilian
and Palestinian Christian thought. This encourages a fresh
engagement with the subtleties in Theodore's behaviour towards the
Byzantine religious and secular leaders of his time and provokes
new conclusions concerning the religious and secular issues which
involved Theodore in controversy. Cholij refutes the established
view of Theodore as a breaker of the traditional; Byzantine church
and state relationship and provides new insights into Theodore's
true understanding of the involvement of the Emperor in church
affairs. In his analysis of the rites of holiness that belonged to
Theodore's church, the author identifies a false tradition of
sacramental mysteries in a misreading of Pseudo-Dionysios the
Areopagite and so offers a radically new definition of the origins
of the Orthodox sacramental tradition.
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