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Evagrius and His Legacy (Paperback)
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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 Legacy 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.
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