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Recommended Reading:
- Powerpoint presentation
- C.H. Lawrence’s Medieval Monasticism is perhaps the best one-volume introduction to the subject.
- Marilyn Dunn’s The Emergence of Monasticism focuses more specifically on monasticism in the early church.
- Writings of Clement of Alexandria
- Writings of Origen
- The Confessions of St. Augustine
- The City of God by St. Augustine
Early Church Fathers and Monasticism – Quiz
- Identify the two cities Augustine believed had been in conflict throughout recorded history.
- Identify the two most important figures of the Alexandrian School.
- Identify the two types of monasticism discussed in the lecture.
- Identify two figures who believed that the relationship between Christianity and classical culture was antagonistic.
- In his early years, Augustine of Hippo flirted with the dualistic philosophy known as _____________.
- St. Benedict of Nursia led a monastery at ____________ in Italy.
- The development of monasticism in church history reflects the influence both of scriptural teaching and the philosophical tradition of ___________.
- True/False: The Alexandrian School viewed Christianity as completing the project begun by pagan philosophy.
- “City of God,” “City of Man”
- Clement of Alexandria, Origen
- Eremitical, cenobitical
- Tertullian, Jerome
- Manichaeism
- Monte Cassino
- Neoplatonism
- True