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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. The life of Hypatius offers a precious witness to the timeless perspectives, values, and virtues of the former fifth-century abbot and saint. Better known by its short title, the Life of Hypatius was written in the mid-fifth century by Callinicus, the second abbot of the monastery that Hypatius (ca. 366?446) founded across the Bosporus Strait from Constantinople. Saint Hypatius was known for his ascetic regimen, unflagging rigor, and spiritual wisdom, and he challenged his disciples to resist careless Christianity and eliminate the influence of paganism. In this monastic hagiography, readers encounter a stark vision where monks are spiritual enforcers working with zeal and vigilance to promote Christian orthodoxy, worship, and moral conduct. The Life of Our Sacred Father, Hypatius of the Rufinianae offers:     a precious witness to the perspectives, values, and attitudes of the early generation of monks in and around Constantinople. enthusiasm for imperial Christianity juxtaposed with a distrust for the worldliness of clergy members and an aggravated hostility toward traditional, local, and non-Christian worship practices. a look at Hypatius?s long paraenetic discourse that focuses on the timeless and indisputable virtues that monks strove to cultivate, including: humility, possessionlessness, care for the poor, self-control, and zealous commitment.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 192 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

xlvi + 551 + [2] pp., 25cm., in the series "Corpus Christianorum. Series Graeca" volume 35, softcover, pages still uncut, very good condition, [Introduction in English, text edition is bilingual: English-Syriac], R98774.

Leuven 1981. x,129 pp. Cloth (Orientalia Lov. Analecta 10; review added).

xlvi + 551 + [2] pp., 25cm., in the series "Corpus Christianorum. Series Graeca" volume 35, text and interior are clean and bright, publisher's hardcover binding in green cloth with gilt lettering, very good condition, [Introduction in English, text edition is bilingual: English-Syriac], R119032.

lviii + 569pp., 25cm., in the series "Corpus Christianorum Series Graeca" volume 35, text and interior are clean and bright, publisher's hardcover binding in green cloth with gilt lettering, very good condition, [Introduction in English, text edition is bilingual: English-Syriac], R119035.

lvii + 453pp., 25cm., in the series "Corpus Christianorum series Graeca" volume 29, publisher's hardcover binding in green cloth with gilt lettering, text is clean and bright, small ex-libris stamp on blanco endpaper and at verso of title page, good condition, [Introduction in English, text edition in Syriac with English translation], weight: 1kg., R119001.…

Turnhout 1994. lvii,385 pp. Wrappers. (Corpus Christ., Ser.Graeca 29).

Turnhout 1996. lvi,569 pp, Cloth. (Corpus Christ., Ser.Graeca 32; binding very slightly spotted; new 210.-).