The Asceticism Of Isaac Of Nineveh
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The Asceticism of Isaac of Nineveh
Author | : Patrik Hagman |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2010-10-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780199593194 |
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The ascetic tracts of 7th century writer Isaac of Nineveh (Isaac the Syrian) provide a wealth of material to better understand early Christian asceticism. By focusing on the role of the body in various ascetic techniques, such as fasting, vigils and prayer, as well as on the way the ascetic relates to the society a picture of asceticism as political activity emerges. For Isaac, the ascetic was to function as something like an icon, an image that showed the world the reality of God'sKingdom already in this life, by clearly indicating the difference between God's ways and men's.Patrik Hagman reviews the scholarly discussion on asceticism of the last three decades, and then proceeds to analyse the texts of Isaac to reveal an emphasis on asceticism as a practice that is at the same time performative, transformative and bodily. This contrasts with the long-established conception of asceticism as based on a negative view of the body. Isaac displays a profound understanding of the way body and soul are related, demonstrating how the body can be used to transform thepersonality of the ascetic, and to communicate the change to the world, without the use of words.The writings of Isaac offer a rare example of an extensive discussion of asceticism by a person who lived a radical ascetic life himself. Hagman's new study brings Isaac's fresh perspective to bear on an important, yet often overlooked, aspect of the Christian tradition.
Isaac of Nineveh s Ascetical Eschatology
Author | : Jason Scully |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780198803584 |
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Isaac of Nineveh's Ascetical Eschatology demonstrates that Isaac's eschatology is an original synthesis based on ideas garnered from a distinctively Syriac cultural milieu. Jason Scully investigates six sources relevant to the study of Isaac's Syriac source material and cultural heritage. These include ideas adapted from Syriac authors like Ephrem, John the Solitary, and Narsai, but also adapted from the Syriac versions of texts originally written in Greek, like Evagrius's Gnostic Chapters, Pseudo-Dionysius's Mystical Theology, and the Pseudo-Macarian homilies. Isaac's eschatological synthesis of this material is a sophisticated discourse on the psychological transformation that occurs when the mind has an experience of God. It begins with the premise that asceticism was part of God's original plan for creation. Isaac says that God created human beings with infantile knowledge and that God intended from the beginning for Adam and Eve to leave the Garden of Eden. Once outside the garden, human beings would have to pursue mature knowledge through bodily asceticism. Although perfect knowledge is promised in the future world, Isaac also believes that human beings can experience a proleptic taste of this future perfection. Isaac employs the concepts of wonder and astonishment in order to explain how an ecstatic experience of the future world is possible within the material structures of this world. According to Isaac, astonishment describes the moment when a person arrives at the threshold of eschatological perfection but is still unable to comprehend the heavenly mysteries, while wonder describes spiritual comprehension of heavenly knowledge through the intervention of divine grace.
Isaac of Nineveh Isaac the Syrian
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Author | : Isaac Syrus |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:638253107 |
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The Wisdom of Saint Isaac the Syrian
Author | : Sebastian Brock,Isaac the Syrian |
Publsiher | : SLG Press |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 2018-07-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780728303492 |
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Fairacres Publications 128 In recent decades there has been a notable renewal of interest in St Isaac the Syrian, a seventh-century master of the ascetic life. This selection of short sayings is part of Dr Brock’s work on a fuller, long-neglected manuscript which he is making available to English readers. Each sentence holds the mind steadily in the light of a truth about the spiritual life. St Isaac’s vivid images drawn directly from nature, husbandry and general human experience speak for themselves and draw us to penitence and prayer.
Understanding asceticism
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Author | : Patrik Hagman |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Asceticism |
ISBN | : 9521221208 |
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Isaac of Nineveh Isaac the Syrian the Second Part Chapters IV XLI English translation
Author | : Isaac (Bishop of Nineveh) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Asceticism |
ISBN | : UVA:X002700416 |
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To Train His Soul in Books
Author | : Robin Darling Young,Monica J. Blanchard |
Publsiher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2011-08-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780813217321 |
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To Train His Soul in Books explores numerous aspects of this rich religious culture, extending previous lines of scholarly investigation and demonstrating the activity of Syriac-speaking scribes and translators busy assembling books for the training of biblical interpreters, ascetics, and learned clergy.
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian
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Author | : Isaac |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 607 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Asceticism |
ISBN | : 0943405165 |
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