
Published online:
24 January 2013
Published in print:
29 November 2012
Online ISBN:
9780191745065
Print ISBN:
9780199665365
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John Climacus John Climacus
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Repentance in John Climacus: initial repentance Repentance in John Climacus: initial repentance
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Repentance in John Climacus: existential repentance Repentance in John Climacus: existential repentance
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Repentance in John Climacus: Christ-like repentance Repentance in John Climacus: Christ-like repentance
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Repentance in John Climacus: conclusion Repentance in John Climacus: conclusion
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Chapter
6 6 Repentance in the Oeuvre of St John of the Ladder
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158–175
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Published:November 2012
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Torrance, Alexis, '6 Repentance in the Oeuvre of St John of the Ladder', Repentance in Late Antiquity: Eastern Asceticism and the Framing of the Christian Life c.400-650 CE, Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs (Oxford , 2012; online edn, Oxford Academic, 24 Jan. 2013), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199665365.003.0007, accessed 5 May 2025.
Abstract
The final figure to be examined is St John of the Ladder, or John Climacus. His work, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, a spiritual classic written on the eve of the Islamic conquests, came to serve as the ultimate expression of Byzantine and Eastern Orthodox ascetic ideals. It would thus be unwise to ignore his views on repentance, and whether they corroborate with those found in the ascetic writers already examined. As with the previous authors, the threefold framework is applied to his work, and is largely found to work well as a hermeneutical key.
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