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Evagrius and His Legacy

by Joel Kalvesmaki, Robin Darling Young

  • Paperback
  • 376 pages
  • Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
  • 15.3 x 22.8 x 2.2 cm

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Evagrius of Pontus (ca. 345-399) was a Greek-speaking monastic thinker and Christian theologian whose works formed the basis for much later reflection on monastic practice and thought in the Christian Near East, in Byzantium, and in the Latin West. His innovative collections of short chapters meant for meditation, scriptural commentaries in the form of scholia, extended discourses, and letters were widely translated and copied. Condemned posthumously by two ecumenical councils as a heretic along with Origen and Didymus of Alexandria, he was revered among Christians to the east of the Byzantine Empire, in Syria and Armenia, while only some of his writings endured in the Latin and Greek churches. A student of the famed bishop-theologians Gregory of Nazianzus and Basil of Caesarea, Evagrius left the service of the urban church and settled in an Egyptian monastic compound. His teachers were veteran monks schooled in the tradition of Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and Anthony, and he enriched their legacy with the experience of the desert and with insight drawn from the entire Greek philosophical tradition, from Plato and Aristotle through Iamblichus. "Evagrius and His Legac"y brings together essays by eminent scholars who explore selected aspects of Evagrius's life and times and address his far-flung and controversial but long-lasting influence on Latin, Byzantine, and Syriac cultures in antiquity and the Middle Ages. Touching on points relevant to theology, philosophy, history, patristics, literary studies, and manuscript studies, "Evagrius and His Legacy" is also intended to catalyze further study of Evagrius within as large a context as possible. "The scholarship on Evagrius Ponticus has seen a veritable explosion in the last ten to fifteen years. Now recognized as a major fourth-century intellectual figure, Evagrius and his role within contemporary networks continue to be reassessed. "Evagrius and His Legacy" is a valuable contribution to that effort; focused and excellently structured, this splendid volume represents the state of the art of Evagrian scholarship while leading the way toward further inquiry." --Susanna Elm, professor of history and classics, University of California, Berkeley
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  • Authors

    Joel Kalvesmaki +1

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    University of Notre Dame Press

  • Published

    October 2015

  • Weight

    545g

  • Page Count

    376

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.8 x 2.2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780268033293

  • ISBN-10

    0268033293

  • Eden Code

    4342679

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