The Gnostics : Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity /
Brakke writes a pioneering study of the way the demon role relates to religious thinking and to cultural anxieties. The author's sources include biographies of exceptional monks, collections of monastic sayings and stories, letters from ascetic teachers to their disciples, sermons, community ru...
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2022]
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