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Isaac of Nineveh's Ascetical Eschatology (Hardcover)
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Isaac of Nineveh's Ascetical Eschatology (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
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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.
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