Quand l’ascèse devient péché : les excès dans le monachisme byzantin d’après les témoignages contemporains
Ascetic practice in oriental monasticism, which was amazingly harsh in the first centuries, implied the question of setting a limit to avoid sin in the form of suicide or pride. This risk is already described in the first great monastic texts (Vita Antonii, Ev...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Presses universitaires de Caen
2007-12-01
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| Series: | Kentron |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/kentron/1752 |
| Summary: | Ascetic practice in oriental monasticism, which was amazingly harsh in the first centuries, implied the question of setting a limit to avoid sin in the form of suicide or pride. This risk is already described in the first great monastic texts (Vita Antonii, Evagrios) and is also present in the tales about the two Symeon Stylites, but also later about Peter of Atroa and Cyril of Philea. One actually knew there was a problem, but the latter was never solved: the Byzantine ascetic kept more or less the right to be his own norm, in spite of various forms of guidance. |
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| ISSN: | 0765-0590 2264-1459 |