12 octobre 2016
Whiting Marlena, « The Monastic Paradox: negotiating monastic seclusion and pilgrim hospitality in the Late Antique Near East », HospitAm, ID : 10670/1.3qa1wj
Marlena Whiting (University of Amsterdam) Mosaic from the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes at Tabgha (Heptapegon) in the Galilee (c) Elias Khamis/Manar al-Athar There is a paradox within the monastic ideal: on the one hand, monks are meant to withdraw from the world into spiritual and ascetic seclusion; on the other hand, scripture enjoins hospitality on all Christians, to emulate the model of Abraham at Mamre - “for in this way some have entertained angels unawares” (He...