Pachomian

Examples

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• The church legitimates a particular brand of asceticism—Pachomian—but the structure provides little.

  Academic text (2004)

• Moreover, it reveals a shared element in ascetic ideologies of the Pachomian and Shenoutean traditions.

  Academic text (2004)

• It serves mainly as an opportunity to tout the orthodoxy of the Pachomian monastic tradition.

  Academic text (2004)

• The anecdote reveals that the Pachomian communities wrestled with the same tensions between the material and the spiritual that Shenoute articulated.

  Academic text (2004)

• Years later, a pseudonymous panegyric to the Pachomian abbot Victor purports to celebrate the dedication of a church at Pbow.

  Academic text (2004)

• 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.

  Academic text (2004)

• 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.

  Academic text (2004)

• 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.

  Academic text (2004)

• A Pachomian monk dedicated his life to ascetic practices and communal living.

• Many historical texts describe the daily routines of Pachomian monks in Egypt.

Synonyms

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monastic

vsPachomian

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A person who lives in a monastery and follows strict religious rules

belongs to that community but follows a specific rule established by Saint Pachomius

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology