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Fi ve M odels o f S p i r i t u a l D i r e c t i o n i n t h e Early Church Georg e E. Demacopoulos Five Models of Spiritual Direction in the Early Church Five Models o f S p i r i t u a l D i r e c t i o n i n t h e Early Chu rch Georg e E. Demacopoulos University of Notre Dame Press Notre Dame, Indiana University of Notre DamePress Notre Dame, Indiana www.undpress.nd.edu All Rights Reserved Copyright © by University of Notre Dame Published in the United States of America Reprinted in , Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Demacopoulos, George E. Five models of spiritual direction in the early church / George E. Demacopoulos. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. -: ---- (pbk. : alk. paper) -: ---- (hardback) -: ---- (web pdf) . Spiritual direction. . Asceticism—History—Early church, ca. ‒ . . Pastoral theology. I. Title. . .'—dc ∞The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. For Katherine, Zoe, Elizabeth, and Eleftherios Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction ONE Athanasius of Alexandria and Ambivalence Regarding Spiritual Direction TWO GregoryNazianzen’s Struggle for Synthesis THREE Augustine of Hippo and Resistance to the Ascetic Model of Spiritual Direction FOUR John Cassian and the Spiritual Direction of the Ascetic Community FIVE Pope Gregory I and the Asceticizing of Spiritual Direction Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments This book grew out of a dissertation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on the pastoral strategies of Pope Gregory I. The decision to expand the study to its present form was based,in part,upon a casual suggestion by my mentor Peter I.Kaufman,just afew days before I left Chapel Hill for New York.To Peter espe- cially,as well as Elizabeth Clark,Lance Lazar,Bart Ehrman,Carolyn Connor,and Nicholas Constas,I owe a great deal.Collectively,they stimulated my intellectual development and provided exceptional, yet distinct,examples of scholarship and teaching. The original inspiration to study St.Gregory’s Pastoral Rulestems from my many conversations with Fr.Demetrios Carellas,now the chaplain of the Greek Orthodox women’s monastery,the Nativity of the Theotokos,in Saxonburg,Pennsylvania.His love for the fa- thersof the Church is matched only by his devotion to his spiritual children. Along the way,I have received assistance from a number of col- leagues. In North Carolina, I benefited greatly from a dissertation reading group composed of doctoral students at UNC and Duke.I would especially like to thank Catherine Chin,Stephanie Cobb,An- drew Jacobs,Caroline Schroeder,Christine Shephardson,and Edwin Taite,who all read early drafts of sections that appear in this volume. Iwould also liketo thank the Royster family and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,which provided a generous dissertation com- pletion fellowship that enabled me to finish expeditiously. At Fordham University,I have benefited immeasurably from my conversations and collaboration with Aristotle Papanikolaou.I am also thankful for the insights of Rev.Joseph Lienhard,S.J.,as well as the opportunity provided by Maryanne Kowaleski to share my ix
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