Christian Monasticism

Christian Monasticism

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Christian monasticism was and continued to be a lay condition—monks depended on a local parish church for the sacraments. However, if the mo...

Eastern Christian Monasticism

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Eastern Christian Monasticism is the life followed by monks and nuns of Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy and Eastern Catholicism. Some authors...
Gregory Palamas

Gregory Palamas

male, deceased (1359)
Gregory Palamas was a monk of Mount Athos in Greece and later Archbishop of Thessalonica known as a preeminent theologian of Hesychasm. He is...
Gautama Buddha

Gautama Buddha

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Siddhārtha Gautama was a spiritual teacher from ancient India and the historical founder of Buddhism. He is universally recognized by Buddhists as t...
Anthony The Great

Anthony The Great

male, deceased (356)
Saint Anthony the Great (ca.251 - 356), also known as Saint Anthony Abbot, Saint Anthony of Egypt, Saint Anthony of the Desert, Saint Anthony the...
Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard Of Bingen

female, deceased (1179)
Selected English translations of Hildegard *Atherton, Mark, trans. "Hildegard of Bingen: Selected Writings". London: Penguin, 2001. *Baird, Joseph...
John Climacus

John Climacus

male, deceased (606)
John Climacus, also known as John of the Ladder, "John Scholasticus" and "John Sinaites", was a 6th century Christian monk at the monastery on...
Theophan The Recluse

Theophan The Recluse

male, deceased (1894)
St. Theophan the Recluse, also known as "Theophan Zatvornik" (Russian: Феофан Затворник), (1815-1894) is a well-known saint in the Russian Orthodo...
Pelagius

Pelagius

male, deceased (420)
Pelagius (ca. 354 - ca. 420/440) was an ascetic monk and reformer who denied the doctrine of Original Sin from Adam and was declared a heretic by...
Theodore The Studite

Theodore The Studite

male, deceased (826)
Theodore the Studite, also called "St Theodore of Stoudios" or "St Theodore of Studium" (759 - 826), was a Byzantine monk and abbot of the Stoudios...