The ladder of prayer and the ship of stirrings: the praying self in late antique east Syrian Christianity
Doubts and Changes: Toward a New Discourse on Prayer in Late Antiquity -- 'For God is Silence and in Silence is He Sung': John of Apamea on Silent Prayer -- From Evagrius Ponticus' Pure Prayer to Isaac of Nineveh's Non-Prayer -- Dadisho' Qaṭraya: Scrutinizing the Self, Scru...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leuven Paris Bristol, CT
Peeters
2019
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Late antique history and religion (volume 22)
Year: 2019 |
| Series/Journal: | Late antique history and religion
volume 22 |
| Further subjects: | B
Prayer
Oriental Orthodox Churches
B Syrian churches ; Doctrines B Syriac Christians Religious life B History B Fathers of the church, Syriac B Self ; Religious aspects B Christian literature, Early Syriac authors History and criticism B Syrian churches Doctrines History B Self Religious aspects History To 1500 B Church history ; Primitive and early church B Church History Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 B 11.53 Eastern Churches B Criticism, interpretation, etc B Prayer Orthodox Eastern Church |
| Summary: | Doubts and Changes: Toward a New Discourse on Prayer in Late Antiquity -- 'For God is Silence and in Silence is He Sung': John of Apamea on Silent Prayer -- From Evagrius Ponticus' Pure Prayer to Isaac of Nineveh's Non-Prayer -- Dadisho' Qaṭraya: Scrutinizing the Self, Scrutinizing the Scriptures -- Shem'on d-Ṭaybutheh: 'Prayer in a Unifi ed Manner' and the Somatic Turn -- John of Dalyatha: Hidden Worship and Vanishing of the Self -- Joseph Hazzaya on the Ladder of Prayer, the Ship of Stirrings and the Helmsman of the Boat. "Doubts about sacrifices, prayers, fate, and providence in the second- to fifth-century Mediterranean world produced new concepts of individual prayer for Christians and non-Christians alike. The Ladder of Prayer and the Ship of Stirrings explores the discourse on the praying self as an ascetic way of life, as an aspect of interiority, and as a path to the divine in Late Antique Eastern Christianity. It deals with the transposition of Greek ascetic literature -- mainly the writings of Evagrius Ponticus, Abba Isaiah, Mark the Monk, and the Apophthegmata patrum -- into East Syrian thought, and its assimilation with indigenous features. Specifically, the book probes the emergence of different sorts of prayer as a pivotal part of the profound religious shifts and cultural developments that unfolded in Late Antique Eastern Christianities. The chronological scope of this study ranges from the second- to fifth-century cultural world of sophists and philosophers, Iamblicus, Porphyry and Proclus, up to the East Syrian mystical authors in the fifth-eighth centuries, among them John of Apamea, Isaac of Nineveh, Dadisho' Qatraya, Shem'on d-Taybutheh, John of Dalyatha, and Joseph Hazzaya. The book presents how these figures incorporated this literary legacy into their teachings and melded it with indigenous Syriac spirituality."-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-253) and indexes |
| ISBN: | 9042939184 |