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Sacred Spectating at the Red Monastery in Late Antique Egypt

Benedictine University at Mesa 225 E Main Street, Mesa, AZ, United States

Early Christian monks wrote about experiencing visions of God through an ascetic practice of sacred spectating. Numerous texts denote this monastic tenet with the Greek word theĊria. In this talk, I propose that the implications of sacred spectating reach beyond its literary treatment. The notion of spectating divine truths contributed also to the creation of […]