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Ascetic Passions
Emotions in Early Christian Egypt
Series: - Critical Approaches to Early Christianity, Volume: 4
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Ascetic Passions: Emotions in Early Christian Egypt reveals the role of emotions in shaping early Christian theology, community, and monastic practices in Egypt. Drawing from biblical interpretation, theological treatises, and Coptic monastic and apocryphal literature, Crislip explores how emotions such as envy, anger, sadness, and joy influenced Christian life and thought. The book highlights how early Christians saw emotions as both spiritual challenges and tools for moral growth. Discussions of figures like Evagrius of Pontus and Shenoute showcase how emotional regulation, community, and identity were central to monastic life. The volume offers new insights into the emotional landscape of late antiquity.
Andrew Crislip, Ph.D. (2002), Yale University, is Professor and Blake Chair in the History of Christianity at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has published widely on early Christianity, including Thorns in the Flesh: Illness and Sanctity in Early Christianity (Penn, 2013).
Introduction
1 Emotions and the World
â1âEmotional Semantics: Envy and Jealousy in Antiquity
â2âEnvy and Anger in On the Origin of the World
â3âConclusion
2 Emotions and Humanity
Edenic Emotion from Early Biblical Interpretation to Late Antiquity
â1âEmotions in Eden and After: The Hebrew Text
â2âGenesis in Greek Rescript
â3âThe Greek Life of Adam and Eve
â4â4â¯Ezra
â5âEden, Emotion, and Human Nature in Christian Reception: A Look Forward
â6âConclusion
3 Emotion and the Divine
The Savior and Emotion in the Coptic Apocryphal Imagination
â1âEmotions and the Gnostic Jesus: Laughter and Contempt
â2âPassions and the Gnostic Jesus
â3âEmotions and the Savior in Valentinian Literature: The Tripartite Tractate
â4âEmotions and Jesus in the Memoirs of the Apostles
â5âConclusion
4 Early Christian Emotional Formation in (and around) The Shepherd of Hermas
â1âEmotional suffering and the conversion of the emotions: μεÏάνοια and διÏÏ Ïία in The Shepherd
â2âSadness and cheerfulness in The Shepherd of Hermas
â3âEmotional Conversion among the Early Homilists
â4âConclusion
5 Passions and Thoughts in Early Egyptian Asceticism
From the Alexandrians to Evagrius
â1âAlexandrian Emotions: Clement and Origen
â2âEvagrius on Thoughts and Passions
6 Emotion and Embodiment
Feeling the Resurrection in Egyptian Monastic Literature
â1âAffective Response to Bodily Resurrection: The First Three Centuries
â2âResurrection and Transformation in the Early Egyptian âDesert Fathersâ: Antony and Ammonas
â3âShenoute of Atripe on the Resurrected Soul and Body
â4âBody, Soul, and Resurrection in Later Egyptian Literature
â5âConclusion
7 Envy and Ascesis
Competitive Emotions in the Monasteries of Shenoute and Besa
â1âEnvy as Social Force in the Ancient World
â2âEnvy and Social Conflict in the Christian Tradition
â3âEnvy in the Works of Shenoute and Besa
â4âConclusion
8 Emotion Communities and Emotional Suffering in Shenouteâs White Monastery Federation
â1âEmotional Suffering and Emotional Communities in A26
â2âEmotional Suffering and Emotional Community in Shenouteâs Canon 6
â3âShenouteâs Monastic Federation and Early Christian Emotions
9 Passions and Their Remedy
Shenoute on the Cure of Souls
â1âChrist the Physician and the Disease of Heresy
â2âChrist the Physician and the Wounds of Wine and Women
â3âChrist, Clergy, and Healing in the Church
â4âConclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
1 Emotions and the World
â1âEmotional Semantics: Envy and Jealousy in Antiquity
â2âEnvy and Anger in On the Origin of the World
â3âConclusion
2 Emotions and Humanity
Edenic Emotion from Early Biblical Interpretation to Late Antiquity
â1âEmotions in Eden and After: The Hebrew Text
â2âGenesis in Greek Rescript
â3âThe Greek Life of Adam and Eve
â4â4â¯Ezra
â5âEden, Emotion, and Human Nature in Christian Reception: A Look Forward
â6âConclusion
3 Emotion and the Divine
The Savior and Emotion in the Coptic Apocryphal Imagination
â1âEmotions and the Gnostic Jesus: Laughter and Contempt
â2âPassions and the Gnostic Jesus
â3âEmotions and the Savior in Valentinian Literature: The Tripartite Tractate
â4âEmotions and Jesus in the Memoirs of the Apostles
â5âConclusion
4 Early Christian Emotional Formation in (and around) The Shepherd of Hermas
â1âEmotional suffering and the conversion of the emotions: μεÏάνοια and διÏÏ Ïία in The Shepherd
â2âSadness and cheerfulness in The Shepherd of Hermas
â3âEmotional Conversion among the Early Homilists
â4âConclusion
5 Passions and Thoughts in Early Egyptian Asceticism
From the Alexandrians to Evagrius
â1âAlexandrian Emotions: Clement and Origen
â2âEvagrius on Thoughts and Passions
6 Emotion and Embodiment
Feeling the Resurrection in Egyptian Monastic Literature
â1âAffective Response to Bodily Resurrection: The First Three Centuries
â2âResurrection and Transformation in the Early Egyptian âDesert Fathersâ: Antony and Ammonas
â3âShenoute of Atripe on the Resurrected Soul and Body
â4âBody, Soul, and Resurrection in Later Egyptian Literature
â5âConclusion
7 Envy and Ascesis
Competitive Emotions in the Monasteries of Shenoute and Besa
â1âEnvy as Social Force in the Ancient World
â2âEnvy and Social Conflict in the Christian Tradition
â3âEnvy in the Works of Shenoute and Besa
â4âConclusion
8 Emotion Communities and Emotional Suffering in Shenouteâs White Monastery Federation
â1âEmotional Suffering and Emotional Communities in A26
â2âEmotional Suffering and Emotional Community in Shenouteâs Canon 6
â3âShenouteâs Monastic Federation and Early Christian Emotions
9 Passions and Their Remedy
Shenoute on the Cure of Souls
â1âChrist the Physician and the Disease of Heresy
â2âChrist the Physician and the Wounds of Wine and Women
â3âChrist, Clergy, and Healing in the Church
â4âConclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Ascetic Passions will be of interest to libraries, specialists, and post-graduate students in Patristics and Early Christianity, History of Emotions, and Late Antiquity.