Synopses & Reviews
This is the first modern study in English of the life and thought of the ninth-century Byzantine theologian and monastic reformer, Theodore the Stoudite. Cholij analyses Theodore's letters and religious writings in context and reaches new conclusions concerning the religious and secular issues which engaged him in controversy.
Review
"Roman Cholij's intelligient and engaging biography of Theodore makes accessible a wider knowledge of this fascinating indvidual. A book of seemingly effortless scholarship and clarity This book is essential reading for historians interested in eastern and western monasticism. Cholij has presented here an immensely thoughtful, stimulating, and readable account of an individual who, in Cholij's estimation, is important more as a reflection of ninth-century Byzantine views than as an innovator or original thinker, and whose career should be seen more centrally as that as a politician. In short, this is a wonderful book."-- Church History
Table of Contents
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Part 1. Biography Life and Times of Theodore the Stoudite
2. Part 2. Principles of Order Obedience and Authority
3. Church and Emperor
4. Part 3. Principles of Holiness Rites of Sanctification
5. Baptism, Eucharist, and Heresy
6. Sanctification of Lay Person and Monk
General Conclusions