Gather Teachings on the Prayer of the Heart in the Greek and Syrian Fathers

The Significance of Body and Community
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4632-3628-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 303 Seiten

Reihe: Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics

The prayer of the heart is an early Christian contemplative tradition of striking profundity and beauty. Christian authors of the Greek- as well as the Syriac-speaking world placed the heart at the center of a mystical theology that viewed the body as a God-given instrument of divine ascent and the relational setting of Christian existence as an important means of experiencing God’s abiding inner presence. This work sheds light on the Syrian church’s approach to the mystery of the divine encounter.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gather, Jill

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Table of Contents (page 5)
- Abbreviations (page 7)
- Introduction (page 11)
- The Doctrine of the Prayer of the Heart (page 23)
- Historiographical Considerations (page 35)
- 1 The Prayer of the Heart: its Biblical Origins (page 55)
- The Old Testament (page 55)
- The New Testament (page 64)
- 2 The Prayer of the Heart: Its Syrian Christian Background (page 71)
- Aphrahat (page 71)
- Ephrem the Syrian (page 89)
- 3 The Prayer of the Heart: Its Greek Christian Background (page 135)
- Origen of Alexandria (page 135)
- Evagrius of Pontus (page 170)
- 4 The Early Byzantine Synthesis (page 191)
- Dionysius the Areopagite (page 191)
- Maximus the Confessor (page 216)
- 5 Retrospective and Prospective (page 241)
- The Desert Tradition (page 241)
- Conclusion (page 263)
- Bibliography (page 279)
- Secondary Sources (page 284)
- Primary Sources (page 279)
- Index (page 299)