...Benjamin N Parks apatheia chemical castration Dante Evagrius moral bioenhancement Address correspondence to: Benjamin N. Parks, PhD, Mercy College of Ohio, 2221 Madison Avenue, Toledo, Ohio 43604, USA. E-mail: [email protected] © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford...

... of Christian Bioethics, Inc. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: [email protected] 2013 Abstract In this paper, I spiritually assess three religious figures: Evagrius Ponticus, Julian of Norwich, and Martin Luther using the FACIT-Sp, the Brief RCOPE, and the INSPIRIT, respectively...

... to judge one’s neighbor and the cultivation of dispassion. While many voices in Desert literature laud the usefulness of memory and practice of death, some are more cautious, and some entirely resistant. Evagrius and Mark the Monk share a distrust of the memory of death, while other figures dispute...

...Figure 1 This chapter shows how contemporary conceptions of sloth as laziness diverge from acedia, a vice that Desert Fathers Evagrius of Pontus and John Cassian defined as a lack of enduring commitment to one’s religious vocation. Thomas Aquinas likewise understood sloth as threatening one’s...

...The first chapter demonstrates that even though Isaac quotes Evagrius throughout much of his writing, Isaac does not adopt Evagrius’s eschatological framework. In order to reach this conclusion, this chapter conducts a detailed comparison of two Syriac translations of the Gnostic Chapters...

... shows that Isaac explicitly equates either wonder or astonishment with two Evagrian technical terms—“solitary knowledge” and “purity of mind”—and two Evagrian concepts—the joy that occurs during prayer and angelic visitation. Dionysius Pseudo astonishment Brock Sebastian Evagrius Guillaumont Antoine...

... and pieces from a number of currents already within his own tradition: he uses John the Solitary’s “three degrees” as an explanation for moral failing in the soul; he uses Evagrius’s tripartite (i.e., Platonic) theory of the soul in order to describe the constitution of the soul; and finally, he uses...

... until Plotinus and Proclus, and in light of Gregory’s definition of soul and relation between resurrection and restoration. The chapter examines the role of the soul in Gregory’s ‘theology of freedom’—rooted in Plato’s philosophy—and the influence Gregory exerted on Evagrius’ theories of the threefold...

... desert tradition and, in particular, to Evagrius Pontus (345–399). Although less well known compared with Basil the Great or Gregory of Nazianzus, Evagrius is acknowledged as one of the primary architects of Christian mysticism. ⁸⁴ He sees acedia arising in the context...

...On the basis of rich evidence, this essay argues for a strong, pervasive influence of Origen on the Corpus Dionysiacum, but also of Evagrius. The essay suggests the presence of specific allusions (veiled or more direct) to Origen in the Corpus. Origen’s influence is demonstrated...

... to concern Christian philosophers into the fourth century, especially John Chrysostom, the Cappadocians, and Evagrius Ponticus. Their speculations on divine providence, free will, the final restoration of all to God, and the origins of evil were taken up by Maximus the Confessor. His distinction between...

... Christian scholia are examined. A survey of scholia by Evagrius, Epiphanius, and Origen reveals that these notes had no necessary or fundamental connection to marginal deployment; yet because of their brevity, exegetical scholia were well suited for such deployment and were frequently arrayed in manuscript...

... on whom the book focuses: Galen of Pergamon, Basil of Caesarea, Evagrius Ponticus, John Cassian, and John Climacus. Basil, Evagrius, Cassian, and John may be taken to represent threads—albeit influential ones—in a variegated tapestry of late antique spiritual direction. I do not aim...

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... of Life of Antony ordination of monks eucharist Messalianism Theodoret of Cyrrhus Evagrius Ponticus Pseudo Macarius Mystagogical treatises von Balthasar Hans Urs Ambrose of Milan Cyril of Jerusalem John Chrysostom Theodore of Mopsuestia History of the Monks in Egypt Palladius liturgy monks...

...This chapter presents an English translation of the ascetic corpus writing of Evagrius of Pontus about the confession of thoughts and counsel. This piece provides a discursive presentation of the ascetic life and detailed account of the experiences of the monk from the earliest stages of ascetic...

...This chapter presents an English translation of the ascetic corpus writing of Evagrius of Pontus about virtues and vices. Evagrius attributes the teaching not to himself but to the ‘sound discourses’ that he has heard from the fathers and the example they have given by their deeds. It details...

...This chapter presents an English translation of the ascetic corpus writing of Evagrius of Pontus about monks and practical life. The symbolism of habit proposed in this treatise is not known earlier in monastic literature and may have been developed by Evagrius himself in analogy with the symbolic...

...This chapter presents an English translation of the ascetic corpus writing of Evagrius of Pontus about the lives of monks in monasteries and in communities and exhortation to a virgin. These two treatises are closely related. The first one provides a brief summary of Evagrian ascetic teaching...

...This chapter presents an English translation of the ascetic corpus writing of Evagrius of Pontus about his advice to monks. Though this treatise, much like the other works of Evagrius, has no defined systematic plan, one can discern within it several loose groupings of sentences around individual...