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ascetic monasticism
Author_Julia Konstantinovsky
Bird's Eye
Bird’s Eye
Cappadocian Fathers
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Christian Late Antiquity
contemplation
controversy
CPG
Demonstrative Syllogism
Disengaged
early Christian theology
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Eschatological Age
eschatological anthropology
essence
Evagrius Ponticus
fourth-century mystical doctrine
gnostica
God's Essence
God's Operations
God's Selfrevelation
gods
God’s Essence
God’s Operations
God’s Selfrevelation
Historia Lausiaca
Holy Unity
Imageless Prayer
Irascible Part
kephalaia
Kephalaia Gnostica
knowledge
Le Pontique
Manifold Wisdom
Mata Le
natural
Natural Contemplation
Neoplatonist influence
origenist
Origenist Controversy
Practical Virtue
soul-body relationship
spiritual
Spiritual Knowledge
Substantial Knowledge
Trinitarian Mysticism
Von Balthasar
Product details
- ISBN 9781138278400
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A revered instructor of the eremitic monks of Nitria, Sketis and Kellia, Evagrius Ponticus is a fascinating yet enigmatic figure in the history of fourth-century mystical thought. This historical and theological re-evaluation of the teaching of Evagrius brings to bear evidence from the Greek and Syriac Evagriana. Focusing on Evagrius' concept of perfection as the acquisition of spiritual knowledge, this book revisits current perceptions of Evagrius's thought and character by comparing and contrasting him with his contemporaries and predecessors, both Christian and pagan. Ideas of the three 'Cappadocians' and the author of the Macariana, as well as Stoic, Neo-Platonic and earlier Christian writers such as Alcinoos, Plotinus, Clement and Origen, are all explored. Konstantinovsky draws attention to a lack of uniformity in the fourth-century views on the origin of the soul, the body-soul relation, and the eschatological destiny of humankind.
Julia Konstantinovsky is a Research Fellow in Theology at Wolfson College and a senior member of the Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford, UK.
