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		<title>Helvidius, Vigilantius, and Aerius</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aerius]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Helvidius, whether a layman or a priest at Rome it is uncertain, a pupil, according to the statement of Gennadius, of the Arian bishop Auxentius of Milan, wrote a work, before the year 383, in refutation of the perpetual virginity &#8230; <a href="http://ecclesiasticalhistory.com/helvidius-vigilantius-aerius.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Opposition to Monasticism. Jovinian</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although monasticism was a mighty movement of the age, engaging either the cooperation or the admiration of the whole church, yet it was not exempt from opposition. And opposition sprang from very different quarters: now from zealous defenders of heathenism, &#8230; <a href="http://ecclesiasticalhistory.com/opposition-monasticism-jovinian.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Benedictines. Cassiodorus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 16:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Benedict had no presentiment of the vast historical importance, which this rule, originally designed simply for the cloister of Monte Cassino, was destined to attain. He probably never aspired beyond the regeneration and salvation of his own soul and that &#8230; <a href="http://ecclesiasticalhistory.com/benedictines-cassiodorus.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Rule of St. Benedict</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Schaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rule of St. Benedict, on which his fame rests, forms an epoch in the history of monasticism. In a short time it superseded all contemporary and older rules of the kind, and became the immortal code of the most &#8230; <a href="http://ecclesiasticalhistory.com/rule-st-benedict.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Benedict of Nursia</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Schaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Benedict of Nursia, the founder of the celebrated order which bears his name, gave to the Western monasticism a fixed and permanent form, and thus carried it far above the Eastern with its imperfect attempts at organization, and made it &#8230; <a href="http://ecclesiasticalhistory.com/benedict-nursia.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>St. Paula</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Schaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of Jerome’s many female disciples, the most distinguished is St. Paula, the model of a Roman Catholic nun. With his accustomed extravagance, he opens his eulogy after her death, in. 404, with these words: &#8220;If all the members of my &#8230; <a href="http://ecclesiasticalhistory.com/st-paula.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>St. Jerome as a Monk</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Schaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most zealous promoter of the monastic life among the church fathers was Jerome, the connecting link between Eastern and Western learning and religion. His life belongs almost with equal right to the history of theology and the history of &#8230; <a href="http://ecclesiasticalhistory.com/st-jerome-monk.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Monasticism in the West. Athanasius, Ambrose, Augustine, Martin of Tours</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Schaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Latin church, in virtue partly of the climate, partly of the national character, the monastic life took a much milder form, but assumed greater variety, and found a larger field of usefulness than in the Greek. It produced &#8230; <a href="http://ecclesiasticalhistory.com/monasticism-west-athanasius-ambrose-augustine-martin-tours.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fanatical and Heretical Monastic Societies in The East</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Schaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monasticism generally adhered closely to the orthodox faith of the church. The friendship between Athanasius, the father of orthodoxy, and Anthony, the father of monachism, is on this point a classical fact. But Nestorianism also, and Eutychianism, Monophysitism, Pelagianism, and &#8230; <a href="http://ecclesiasticalhistory.com/fanatical-heretical-monastic-societies-east.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pachomius and the Cloister Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Schaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though the strictly solitary life long continued in use, and to this day appears here and there in the Greek and Roman churches, yet from the middle of the fourth century monasticism began to assume in general the form of &#8230; <a href="http://ecclesiasticalhistory.com/pachomius-cloister-life.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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