Title
The vision of Didymus the Blind [electronic resource] : a fourth-century virtue-origenism / Grant D. Bayliss.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191810770 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 273 pages).
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198747895 doi
Call Number
BR65.D38
Dewey Decimal Classification
230.092
Summary
A broad reading of the theological and exegetical works of Didymus the Blind suggests he is best understood not in terms of older 'Alexandrian'/'Antiochene' paradigms but as a proponent of 'virtue-Origenism'. An independent teacher, based in Alexandria throughout the second half of the fourth century, Didymus appealed to many within the broadly Origenist currents of Egyptian asceticism, including Jerome, Rufinus, and Evagrius.
Note
A broad reading of the theological and exegetical works of Didymus the Blind suggests he is best understood not in terms of older 'Alexandrian'/'Antiochene' paradigms but as a proponent of 'virtue-Origenism'. An independent teacher, based in Alexandria throughout the second half of the fourth century, Didymus appealed to many within the broadly Origenist currents of Egyptian asceticism, including Jerome, Rufinus, and Evagrius.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 9, 2015).
Series
Oxford theology and religion monographs.
Part I : Background
Didymus through the eyes of others
Teaching virtue
Footprints in the sand : assessing the Didymean corpus
Reading virtue : Didymus and 'elevated' exegesis
Part II : Didymus and the doctrine of virtue
Virtue, reality, and the pre-existence of the soul
The call to virtue
Numbering the virtues
Part III : Didymus and the doctrine of sin
Psychology and the pathology of sin
The doctrine of pre-passion
Interpreting 'original' sin.
