Pachomian
- noun
- Specialized
- In Egypt, a source from the Pachomian monasteries contains a brief passage about the small church at Pbow.
- Pachomian monastery
- Pachomian tradition
Examples
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The church legitimates a particular brand of asceticism—Pachomian—but the structure provides little.
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Moreover, it reveals a shared element in ascetic ideologies of the Pachomian and Shenoutean traditions.
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It serves mainly as an opportunity to tout the orthodoxy of the Pachomian monastic tradition.
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The anecdote reveals that the Pachomian communities wrestled with the same tensions between the material and the spiritual that Shenoute articulated.
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Years later, a pseudonymous panegyric to the Pachomian abbot Victor purports to celebrate the dedication of a church at Pbow.
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The Pachomian story promotes a form of ascetic contemplation that resembles Shenoute's: "the beauty of the house" cannot be regarded simply as a monument to the magnificence of God.
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The two other literary examples of ascetic architectural theologies in late antiquity come from a social and cultural milieu much closer to Shenoute's: the Pachomian monastery of Pbow.
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The last literary source with parallels to Canon 7 is a panegyric to Pachomius and to Victor, general abbot of the Pachomian monasteries in the early to mid-fifth century.
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A Pachomian monk dedicated his life to ascetic practices and communal living.
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Many historical texts describe the daily routines of Pachomian monks in Egypt.
Synonyms
A person who lives in a monastery and follows strict religious rules
Surface Forms
Morphology
Pachomian = Pachomius (semi-transparent) = Pachomius + ian
The noun is formed with the standard denominal suffix '-ian' that denotes affiliation or membership with Pachomius, a predictable morphological process.
Etymology
Pachomian comes from Saint Pachomius, who began a community of monks in Egypt. So a Pachomian is someone 'of Pachomius' — a monk or nun who follows his rule.