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"Working the Earth of the Heart": The Messalian Controversy in History, Texts, and Language to A.D. 431

A study of the Messalian controversy through 431, tracing the disputed ascetic vocabulary to a Syriac milieu and reframing the dispute as cultural difference rather than heresy.

Author: Columba Stewart
Type: Book
Written: 1991
Edition: 1991
Publisher: Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press)
Language: English
Tradition: Christian Mysticism
Identifiers: ISBN9780198267362, OCLC23355769