Four Desert Fathers׃ Pambo, Evagrius, Macarius of Egypt, and Macarius of Alexandria: Coptic Texts Relating to the Lausiac History of Palladius #27

Publication Data: Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2004
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: 203
Dimensions (l × w × h): 18.4 cm × 12.7 cm × 1.5 cm
ISBN: 0‒88141‒256‒2

   
Translated, with Introduction, by Tim Vivian
With the Assistance of Rowan A. Greer
Preface by Adalbert de Vogüé, OSB

Number 27 of Popular Patristics Series

“The four desert Fathers who give their names to this volume—Pambo, Evagrius, Macarius of Egypt, and Macarius of Alexandria—were well known in late antiquity but were most famous, perhaps, because of their Lives recounted by the monk (and later bishop) Palladius in his Lausiac History. The Lausiac History, however, is not a straightforward historical source; theological and spiritual issues, indeed arguments and bitter fisticuffs, have seemingly shaped its form and contents. The most important of these issues vis-à-vis the four Lives offered here were Origenism and the Anthropomorphite controversy.”
—“Introduction”

CONTENTS

   Foreword
   Preface
   Abbreviations
Four Desert Fathers
   Introduction
   1. The Life of Pambo
   2. The Life of Evagrius
   3. The Life of Macarius the Great
   4. The Life of Macarius of Alexandria
   Appendices
      I. Seven Goals of Anti-Origenism
      II. Syriac Lausiac History [72] and [73]
      III. Evagrius Debates Three Demons
      IV. Apa Aphou and Archbishop Theophilus Debate the Image of God
   Scripture Index
   Index of Names and Subjects
   Bibliography