Saturday, January 4, 9:30–11:30 a.m.

American Society of Church History Session 17

Ascetics and Aesthetics

Palmer House, Burnham Room 4

Chair: Daniel H. Williams, Baylor University

Papers: The Cosmic Necessity of Artistic Representation in Theodore the Studite's "Antirhetici"
Michael Harrington, University of Dallas

Ascetics and Aesthetics: The Early Canon Hymns of John Damascene
Elijah Mueller, Marquette University

The Church at Shenoute's Monastery: (Re)constructing a Theology of the Communal Ascetic Life
Caroline T. Schroeder, Ithaca College

Comment: John M. Norris, University of Dallas

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