Download or read book The Asceticism of Isaac of Nineveh written by Patrik Hagman and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Isaac of Nineveh s Ascetical Eschatology written by Jason Scully and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses the development of Isaac of Nineveh's eschatology through an examination of his use of Syriac source material.
Download or read book Isaac of Nineveh Isaac the Syrian the Second Part Chapters IV XLI written by Isaac (Bishop of Nineveh) and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian written by Isaac and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Isaac of Nineveh s Ascetical Eschatology written by Jason Scully and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Isaac of Nineveh Isaac the Syrian the Second Part Chapters IV XLI English translation written by Isaac (Bishop of Nineveh) and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moral And ascetic Works written by St. Isaac the Syrian (of Nineveh) and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-07-22 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moral-and-ascetic Works*Ascetic words *Three mystical treatises that were not included in the Greek translation of the first collection *Divine Mysteries and Spiritual Life *About knowledge. Selected chapters *Igniting the mind in a spiritual desert /Link in Russian// And why do others want victory and love it, but cannot gain it with their strong confrontation, on the contrary, every day they suffer defeat from bodily tickling and are in labor, in crying and exhaustion, working for their souls, and you can comfortably to bear the claims of the body, which are so fierce, and not be greatly confused by it? / If you intend to devote your soul to the work of prayer that cleans the mind, and to stay awake at night in order to acquire a bright mind, then move away from the sight of the world, stop talking with people and do not wish to accept your friends into your cell, even under the pretext of benefit 441 , except for those of the same kind, of the same mind with you and your fellow men; be afraid of disturbing the mental conversation 442 , which is usually excited involuntarily, after cutting off, and detachment, and the complete cessation of external conversation. Match alms with your prayer, and your soul will see the light of truth. For the extent to which the heart ceases to be disturbed by external objects, to the same extent, the mind can through the comprehension of thought 443to reach the comprehension of the Divine and to amazement (by them). For the soul usually quickly replaces (human meetings with conversations with God and the words of God and) 444 one conversation with another, if we try to show a little prudence. And in order to replace one interview with another, engage in reading the Scriptures, which opens the way for you to the subtleties of contemplation, and the lives of the saints, although at first you will not feel the sweetness due to the darkening closeness of things.
Download or read book The Wisdom of Saint Isaac the Syrian written by Isaac (Bishop of Nineveh) and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Isaac of Nineveh Isaac the Syrian the Second Part Chapters IV XLI Syriac text written by Isaac (Bishop of Nineveh) and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mystic Treatises by Isaac of Nineveh written by Arent Jan Wensinck and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-08-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1923, this is a collection of treatises on mysticism by Isaac of Nineveh. Translated from Bedjan's syriac text with an introduction and registers.
Download or read book Understanding asceticism written by Patrik Hagman and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Svensk sammanfattning (s. 250-251).
Download or read book To Train His Soul in Books written by Robin Darling Young and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Wisdom of St Isaac of Nineveh written by Isaac (Bishop of Nineveh) and published by Gorgias PressLlc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Isaac of Nineveh, or, as he is sometimes known, St. Isaac the Syrian, was born in the region of modern Qatar and lived during the seventh century. Ordained as the bishop of Nineveh sometime between 661 and 681 CE, Isaac withdrew from his ecclesiastical office after only five months, retiring to live as a monastic hermit in the mountains of southeastern Iraq. Translated from their original Syriac into a number of other languages, St. Isaacs spiritual writings have been read by Christian monastics for centuries.The present selection of one hundred and fifty-three short sayings by St. Isaac is drawn from both the First Part and the Second Part of his literary corpus, and it follows the sequence of these two volumes. Here, in the inaugural volume of the Texts from Christian Late Antiquity (TeCLA) series, Gorgias Press is pleased to present Sebastian Brocks masterful English translation of St. Isaacs writings accompanied for the first time by the Syriac text.
Download or read book Mystic Treatises written by Isaac (Bishop of Nineveh) and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Asceticism in the Syrian Orient written by Arthur Vööbus and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium written by Isaac (Bishop of Nineveh) and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Clothed in the Body written by Dr Hannah Hunt and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunt examines the apparent paradox that Jesus' earthly existence and post resurrection appearances are experienced through consummately physical actions and attributes yet some ascetics within the Christian tradition appear to seek to deny the value of the human body, to find it deadening of spiritual life. Hunt considers why the Christian tradition as a whole has rarely managed more than an uneasy truce between the physical and the spiritual aspects of the human person. Why is it that the 'Church' has energetically argued, through centuries of ecumenical councils, for the dual nature of Christ but seems still unwilling to accept the full integration of physical and spiritual within humanity, despite Gregory of Nazianzus's comment that 'what has not been assumed has not been redeemed'?
