Course Content (Syllabus)
Survey of the ascetic literature, of the models of holiness and of the ascetic figures that shaped eastern and western monasticism with attention to the relationship between these two traditions through a comparative approach to the sources.
Additional bibliography for study
- C. Leyser, Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great, Oxford Historical Monographs (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).
- T. Spidlik, Η πνευματικότητα του Ανατολικού Χριστιανισμού, μτφρ. Β. Ψευτογκάς, εκδ. Π. Πουρναράς, Θεσσαλονίκη 2000.