John Rufus and the World Vision of Anti-Chalcedonean Culture : Second Revised Edition

This book deals with the works of the anti-Chalcedonian hagiographer, John Rufus, and traces the basic motives behind the opposition against the council of Chalcedon in the fifth century through an attempt to reconstruct a specific anti-Chalcedonian culture. As part of the eastern monastic culture, it considered itself a counter-culture guarding purity of ascetic conduct and orthodoxy from being defiled by the perverseness of the majority. Reading John Rufus' hagiography, we find ourselves in the midst of a cosmological warfare between good and evil, where the great heroes of the anti-Chalcedonian movement enter into history as God's warriors against the rebellion of demons and heretics. Preface and Acknowledgments Contents Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Stage of the Resistance 2. The Texts 3. The Images of Authority 4. Signs and Revelations 5. The Image of the Enemies Conclusion Bibliography Index