Contributions

  • Bamberger, John Eudes - Contributor
  • Evagrius, Ponticus, 345?-399. - Contributor

Publication

1981 - Cistercian Publications, Kalamazoo, Mich, Michigan

Language

English

Word Count

24,000 words, Guess

Page Count

96 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100879078049
  • ISBN-100879078006
  • ISBN-100879079045
  • ISBN-139780879078003
  • ISBN-139780879078041
and 6 more
  • ISBN-139780879079048
  • Goodreads4707832', '1409327
  • LibraryThing1056194
  • Library of Congress Control Number76152483
  • OCLC Control Number669182
  • Open LibraryOL17238220M

Classifications

  • LCCBR65.E673 P7313 1972
  • LCCBV5039.G7 E973

Alternate Titles

  • Chapters on prayer

Description

Evagrius Ponticus is the living link through whom the ascetic principles of Hellenistic philosophers passed into the mainstream of Christian monaticism. Although not known by name for generations, Evagrius molded the ideals of Western asceticism through his own widely-disseminated works and through his influence on intermediaries like John Cassian and, through Cassian, Saint Benedict of Nursia. To those seeking God alone, he counselled absolute solitude: the solitude of separation from the world and the solitude of the human soul.

Subjects

Genres

  • Early works to 1800

Series Statement

  • Cistercian studies series -- no. 4

Other Editions

  • The praktikos: Chapters on prayerCistercian Publications1981-01-01

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