Renouncing the World Yet Leading the Church: The Monk-Bishop in Late Antiquity by Andrea Sterk

Renouncing the World Yet Leading the Church: The Monk-Bishop in Late Antiquity

Andrea Sterk

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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,...

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