By Demetrios S. Katos

This e-book is the 1st monograph dedicated to the existence, paintings, and considered Palladius of Helenopolis (ca. 362-420), a massive witness of Christianity in past due antiquity. Palladius' discussion at the lifetime of St. John Chrysostom and his Lausiac background are key resources for our wisdom of John Chrysostom's downfall and of the Origenist controversy, they usually either offer wealthy details bearing on many striking ecclesiastical personalities akin to John Chrysostom, Theophilus of Alexandria, Jerome, Evagrius of Pontus, Melania the Elder, Isidore of Alexandria, and the Tall Brothers. Demetrios S. Katos employs overdue vintage theories of judicial rhetoric and argumentation, theories whose importance is barely now turning into obvious to past due vintage students, to elicit new insights from the discussion in regards to the controversy that led to the demise of John Chrysostom. He additionally demonstrates that the Lausiac heritage intentionally promoted to the imperial court docket of Pulcheria a non secular theology that was once indebted to his advisor Evagrius and extra largely to the legacy of Origen, regardless of Jerome's contemporary assaults opposed to either. Palladius emerges from this account no longer in basic terms as a peripatetic monk, his personal most well liked self-portrait that has prevailed in newest money owed, yet as an ecclesiastical statesman who passionately supported either the reasons and ideas of his affiliates within the so much urgent controversies of his day.The research also will be worthy for students of past due antiquity operating within the parts of asceticism, spirituality, pilgrimage, hagiography, and early Christian buildings of gender, for all of which Palladius' works are very important assets.