The vision of Didymus the Blind : a fourth-century virtue-origenism /

An independent teacher, based in Alexandria throughout the second half of the fourth century, Didymus appealed to many within the broadly Origenist currents of Egyptian asceticism, including Jerome, Rufinus, and Evagrius. His commentaries, lecture-notes, and theological treatises show him specifical...

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Main Author:	Bayliss, Grant D. (Grant David), 1975- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Oxford theology and religion monographs.
Subjects:	Didymus, > the Blind, > approximately 313-approximately 398.
Summary:	An independent teacher, based in Alexandria throughout the second half of the fourth century, Didymus appealed to many within the broadly Origenist currents of Egyptian asceticism, including Jerome, Rufinus, and Evagrius. His commentaries, lecture-notes, and theological treatises show him specifically committed to the legacy of Origen and Philo, rather than a broader 'Alexandrian' or noetic reading of Scripture. Yet his concern was not to answer classic 'Antiochene' critique but rather offer a faithful continuation of many aspects of Origen's thought and exegesis, now made consistent with the broader anti-subordinationist developments in Nicene faith from the 350s onwards. In doing so he made virtue a primary category of reality, human existence, and life, in ways that go beyond the traditional philosophical tropes.