TY  - GEN
T1  - Dreams, virtue and divine knowledge in early Christian Egypt
A1  - Neil, Bronwen
A1  - Costache, Doru
A1  - Wagner, Kevin (Theologian)
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge, United Kingdom
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1098279569
AB  - What did dreams mean to Egyptian Christians of the first to the sixth centuries? Alexandrian philosophers, starting with Philo, Clement and Origen, developed a new approach to dreams that was to have profound effects on the spirituality of the medieval West and Byzantium. Their approach, founded on the principles of Platonism, was based on the convictions that God could send prophetic dreams and that these could be interpreted by people of sufficient virtue. In the fourth century, the Alexandrian approach was expanded by Athanasius and Evagrius to include a more holistic psychological understanding of what dreams meant for spiritual progress. The ideas that God could be known in dreams and that dreams were linked to virtue flourished in the context of Egyptian desert monasticism. This volume traces that development and its influence on early Egyptian experiences of the divine in dreams.
OP  - 214
CN  - BR115.D74 N45 2019eb
SN  - 9781108582803
SN  - 110858280X
SN  - 9781108646802
SN  - 1108646808
SN  - 9781108481182
SN  - 1108481183
SN  - 9781108740432
SN  - 110874043X
KW  - Dreams : Religious aspects : Christianity.
KW  - Alexandrian school, Christian.
KW  - Theology, Doctrinal : History : Early church, ca. 30-600.
KW  - Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)
KW  - Virtue.
KW  - Virtues.
KW  - École chrétienne d'Alexandrie.
KW  - Théologie dogmatique : Histoire : ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
KW  - Vertus.
KW  - RELIGION : Christian Life : General.
KW  - Virtues
KW  - Alexandrian school, Christian
KW  - Dreams : Religious aspects : Christianity
KW  - Theology, Doctrinal : Early church
KW  - Virtue
KW  - 30-600
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - History
ER  -