Thomas Aquinas and the Qualification of Monastic Labor
Early monastic communities in Egypt were veritable laboratories for the practice of Christian virtue; perhaps surprisingly, they were also large-scale coordinated communities of labor. That manual labor should have been part of anchoritic life is not obvious; given that hermits were leaving the citi...
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MDPI AG
2024-03-01
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/3/366 |