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English Pages 232 Year 1986
Table of contents :
Foreword 9
Introduction 11
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The Solitude in Pontus 15
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Biographicals 23
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The Quest for Wisdom 39
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Monastic Ideal 47
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Priests and Hierarchs: Their Calling 61
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Priests and Hierarchs: Shepherds of the Sheep 77
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Priests and Hierarchs: Upholders of Orthodoxy .... 115
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Priests and Hierarchs: The Arian Persecution 143
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Hierarchs' Frustrations 157
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Glimpses of Daily Life 175
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Ailments and Deaths 207
Epilogue 220
Table of Excerpts 222
Map of Central Anatolia
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