Daniel Ahn
Professor of church history at Yonsei University and author of a revision of his 2022 doctoral thesis on late antique monastic emotion; wrote Fear of God: Practicing Emotion in Late Antique Monasticism (University of California Press, 2025).
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Jan 24, 2026 • 38min
Daniel Eastman An, "Fear of God: Practicing Emotion in Late Antique Monasticism" (U California Press, 2025)
Daniel Ahn, a Yonsei University church history professor, revises his doctoral work into Fear of God. He traces why fear of God dominated late antique monastic life. Short takes explore language differences, how psalmody and inscriptions taught emotion, and how built spaces and practices made fear a social, material habit.
