Macarius / Simeon
(c.300-c.390)

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Primary Sources

Arthur James Mason [1851-1928], Fifty Spiritual Homilies of St. Marcarius the Egyptian. Translations of Christian Literature. Series I: Greek Texts. London: SPCK, 1921. Hbk. pp.316. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]

Secondary Sources

	Anonymous, "The Coptic Sayings of Saint Macarius of Egypt," Cistercian Studies Quarterly 35.4 (2000): 499-523.
	David Brakke, "Macarius's Quest and Ours: Literary Sources for Early Egyptian Monasticism," Cistercian Studies Quarterly 48.2 (2013): 239–251.
	Frederick W.Norris, "Macarius the Great (ca, 300-ca. 390)," Everett Ferguson, Encyclopedia of Early Christianity, 2nd edn. London: Routledge, 2013. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount for new subscriptions]
	Stephen Plant & Marcus Plested, "Macarius, St Gregory of Nyssa, and the Wesleys," Epworth Review 33.1 (January 2006): 22-30.
	Marcus Plested, "The Christology of Macarius-Symeon," In Studia PatristicaCappadocian Writers, Other Greek Writers. Louvain, 2001. pp.593-596.
	Marcus Plested, "A Survey of Recent Research on Macarius-Symeon (Pseudo-Macarius)," St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 4.3–4 (2003): 431-440.
	Gilles Quispel, "Syrian Thomas and the Syrian Macarius," Vigiliae Christianae 18.4 (Dec. 1964): 226–235.
	C. Stewart, "Working the Earth of the Heart": The Messalian Controversy in History, Texts, and Language to A.D. 431. Oxford: Clarendon, 1991.
	Columba Stewart, "The Macarian Legacy: The Place of Macarius-Symeon in the Eastern Christian Tradition," The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 59.3 (July 2008): 527–529.
	Satoshi Tada, "Syriac Translation in Egypt: The Case of the Life of Saint Macarius the Egyptian," Orientalia 75.1 (2006): 96–110.
	Hannah Turrill, "Winds, Tombs, and Wingless Birds: Sin in the Fifty Homilies of Macarius," The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 27.2 (Sum. 2023): 98–109.
	Tim Vivian, "The Peaceable Kingdom: Animals as Parables in the Virtues of Saint Macarius," Anglican Theological Review 85.3 (Summer 2003): 477–491.
	Tim Vivian, "The Good God, the Holy Power, and the Paraclete: 'To the Sons of God' (Ad Filios Dei) by Saint Macarius the Great," Anglican Theological Review 80.3 (Summer 1998): 338–365.
	Tim Vivian, "The Macarian Legacy: The Place of Macarius-Symeon in the Eastern Christian Tradition," St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 50.3 (2006): 312–315.

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