Encountering the Sacred: The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late AntiquityUniversity of California Press, 30 dec. 2005 - 270 sidor This innovative study sheds new light on one of the most spectacular changes to occur in late antiquity—the rise of pilgrimage all over the Christian world—by setting the phenomenon against the wide background of the political and theological debates of the time. Asking how the emerging notion of a sacred geography challenged the leading intellectuals and ecclesiastical authorities, Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony deftly reshapes our understanding of early Christian mentalities by unraveling the process by which a territory of grace became a territory of power. Examining ancient writers' responses to the rising practice of pilgrimage, Bitton-Ashkelony offers a nuanced reading of their thinking on the merits and the demerits of pilgrimage, revealing theological and ecclesiastical motivations that have been overlooked, and questioning the long-held assumption of scholars that pilgrimage was only a popular, not an elite, religious practice. In addition to Greek and Latin sources, she includes Syriac material, which allows her to build a rich picture of the emerging theology of landscape that took shape over the fourth to sixth centuries. |
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1 Basil of Caesareas and Gregory of Nyssas Attitudes Toward Pilgrimage | 30 |
Vacillating Between Support and Reservations | 65 |
3 Augustine on Holy Space | 106 |
4 Pilgrimage in Monastic Culture | 140 |
5 Local Versus Central Pilgrimage | 184 |
Bibliography | 207 |
General Index | 239 |
Index of Places | 247 |
Index of Biblical Citations | 249 |
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Encountering the Sacred: The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity Bruria Bitton-Ashkelony Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2005 |
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Sida 186 - Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
Sida 188 - And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Sida 188 - And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
Sida 84 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Sida 126 - In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
Sida 123 - But ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you ; and ye shall be witnesses unto me, both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
Sida 125 - Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
Sida 153 - Go forth from your native land and from your father's house to the land that I will show you.
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