monasticism

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• This already intriguing combination of militarism and monasticism soon gave way to an equally mysterious, yet very real, power. The Times Literary Supplement
• The Catechetical School of Alexandria was originated in Egypt. Egypt is the birthplace of Christian monasticism, also has experienced in the Christianity history the most serious persecution.
• The two brands of monasticism differed in their attitude toward the state, and toward the question of monachal property.
• I wish that Mr. Montefiore had expanded his book a little some of his most interesting bits are relegated to footnotes, and told us something about the origins of the synagogue and of monasticism, which is essential to the story of Jerusalem, but clearly a non-Jewish phenomenon. The City With the Big Ego
• Homosexual love was important in this period and carried over into Christian monasticism.
• JOSEPH KOTERSKI, FORDHAM UNIVERSITY: I suspect that what he's doing is thinking all the way back to St. Benedict, who was a 6th century individual, who's the founder of Western monasticism, that is the beginning of monasteries in Europe. CNN Transcript Apr 19, 2005
• Christian monasticism evolved from the hermit communities founded in the 3rd century by men fleeing from Roman persecution to the Egyptian and Syrian deserts, where they sought union with God.
• A friend of mine used to comment that he wished he'd known that marriage would be a kind of monasticism, and asked us to call him "Brother John". The dreariest subject in the world: How to spice up your marriage.
• I suggest that these connotations, reiterated and readapted in the context of Marian doctrine and female monasticism, are the key to Andrea del Sarto's altarpiece.
• This movement or family of traditions is called monasticism, literally meaning, "dwelling alone," and was established during the early church as a protest against the increasing worldliness of the church. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]