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- Food, Virtue, and the Shaping of Early Christianity
- Food, Virtue, and the Shaping of Early Christianity
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Medicine of Moderation
- 3 From Dinner Theater to Domestic Church in Late Antique Antioch
- 4 Shenoute’s Botanical Virtues
- 5 The Places of God
- 6 Meals, Mouths, and Martyrs
- 7 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
5 - The Places of God
Festivals, Food Service, and Christian Community
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 August 2020
- Food, Virtue, and the Shaping of Early Christianity
- Food, Virtue, and the Shaping of Early Christianity
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Medicine of Moderation
- 3 From Dinner Theater to Domestic Church in Late Antique Antioch
- 4 Shenoute’s Botanical Virtues
- 5 The Places of God
- 6 Meals, Mouths, and Martyrs
- 7 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
From his semi-rural monastery, Shenoute constructs a landscape of Christian piety whose component parts initially appear very similar to those of Chrysostom or any other orthodox church leader of the 5th century. He encourages lay people to attend church, to give charitably on their own or through ecclesial institutions, and to express their Christian identity in their everyday lives. He condemns the excesses of martyr festival, crypto-paganism, abuses of wealth, and luxurious living in the city of Panopolis. But, like any landscape, this one is oriented to the perspective of the viewer in ways that inevitably bias any maps that he attempts to produce as guides for others.
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- Food, Virtue, and the Shaping of Early Christianity , pp. 144 - 178Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020