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Daniel Eastman An, "Fear of God: Practicing Emotion in Late Antique Monasticism" (U California Press, 2025)
January 24, 2026·38 min·3 clips
Why did Greek monks interpret fear of God as fear of divine judgment, unlike other languages?
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A careful look at monastic fear of God as a practiced discipline.
Daniel Eastman's discussion stays close to a practical question: what fear of God meant in late antique monastic life, and how monks learned it through Psalms, prayer, and discipline.
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You want to hear how fear of God gets folded into daily psalm-singing and monastic prayer.
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