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Athanasius: The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinus
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by Robert C. Gregg (Translator); Preface by William A. Clebsch

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"The [publisher] is to be congratulated on a major publishing enterprise....It is an important ecumenical series, each book being translated or edited from the original or best available texts and introduced by recognized scholars and spiritual leaders. This means that for the first time authoritative texts of these great classics are being made available in an attractive large paperback format with four-color original art covers and with the texts, notes, introductions and prefaces all presented in an easy-to-read type." Methodist Recorder Athanasius: The Life of Antony and The Letter to Marcellinus Translation and introduction by Robert c. Gregg Preface by William A. Clebsch "And it seems to me that these words become like a mirror to the persons singing them, so that he might perceive himself and the emotions of his soul, and thus affected, he might recite them. For in fact he who hears the one reading receives the song that is recited as being about him, and either, when he is convicted by his conscience, being pierced, he will repent, or hearing of the hope that resides in God, and of the succor available to believers-how this kind of grace exists for him-he exults and begins to give thanks to God." Athanasius (c. 295-373) Athanasius was a major figure of 14th-century Christendom. As the Bishop of Alexandria, spiritual master and theologian, he led the Church in its battle against the Arian heresy. Athanasius' The Life of Antony is one of the foremost classics of Christian asceticism. It tells the spiritual story of St. Antony, the founder of Christian monasticism. Written at the request of the desert monks of Egypt to provide "an ideal pattern of the ascetical life," it immediately became astonishingly popular. This work contributed greatly to the establishment of monastic life in Western Christianity. From a literary perspective, it created a new Christian genre for the lives of saints. The Letter to Marcellinus is an introduction to the spiritual sense of the Psalms. The Psalms are presented as a variety of attitudes which coexist in a truly harmonious and whole sense of prayer. William A. Clebsch of Stanford University, President of the American Academy of Religion, in his Preface to this volume, says, "This translator's fidelity to the texts ensures that the reader receives in these works Athanasius' meaning, so far as feasible in the order of his thoughts and in the equivalence of his words." +

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You have entered on a fine contest with the monks in Egypt, intending as you do to measure up to or even to surpass them in your discipline of virtue.

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  • Title Athanasius: The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinus
  • Author Robert C. Gregg (Translator); Preface by William A. Clebsch
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Paulist Press, New York
  • Publication date 1979-01-01
  • Features Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780809122950 / 0809122952
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 5.9 x 0.5 in (22.86 x 14.99 x 1.27 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Theometrics: Catholic
    • Topical: Home School
  • Category Religion - Catholicism
  • Library of Congress subjects Anthony, Christian saints - Egypt
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 79056622
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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