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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Steppa, Jan-Eric

Titel

John Rufus and the World Vision of Anti-Chalcedonean Culture : Second Revised Edition

Ist Teil von

• Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics

Ort / Verlag

Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press

Erscheinungsjahr

[2014]

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This book deals with the works of the anti-Chalcedonian hagiographer, John Rufus, and traces the basic motives behind the opposition against the council of Chalcedon in the fifth century through an attempt to reconstruct a specific anti-Chalcedonian culture. As part of the eastern monastic culture, it considered itself a counter-culture guarding purity of ascetic conduct and orthodoxy from being defiled by the perverseness of the majority. Reading John Rufus' hagiography, we find ourselves in the midst of a cosmological warfare between good and evil, where the great heroes of the anti-Chalcedonian movement enter into history as God's warriors against the rebellion of demons and heretics