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Book Review: Simon Magus in Patristic, Medieval, and Early Modern Traditions

thereby, on Cassian), but says little about the Middle Platonic substrate crucial to Origen’s and Evagrius’s cosmology, and about the philosophically rooted psychology on which both Origen and Evagrius drew directly. Stoicism, in the popular form in which it circulated in late Antiquity, deserves a higher profile in this study. We should be—and H. certainly is— past any fear that full acknowledgement of the usefulness of philosophy to early Christian and, especially, to ascetic thinkers would somehow diminish their originality or their Christian authenticity. These were people of their time and place, and that time and place was suffused with Greek thought. Throughout the book, H. shows himself at ease with the results of modern scholarship; more explicit attention to this dimension of monasticism would have been a natural step. Surely, this superb contribution will remain the starting point and essential reference work on Egyptian monasticism for some time to come. We owe its author deep thanks for making the work of both teacher and researcher considerably easier.