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Joy-bearing grief : tears of contrition in the writings of the early Syrian and Byzantine fathers /
"This volume is the first full-length study of penthos (tears of contrition) since Hausherr's in 1944. It traces its exposition in the early eastern Christian tradition, through detailed analysis of Greek and Syriac texts by Klimakos, Ephrem, Isaac and Symeon the New Theologian. It suggest...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2004.
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| Colección: | Medieval Mediterranean ;
v. 57. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Sect. I. Introduction
- Sect. II. The call to repentance from the desert
- Ch. 1. The desert tradition
- Ch. 2. The place of Klimakos within the desert tradition
- Ch. 3. Exegesis of step 7 of The ladder of divine ascent
- Sect. III. 'She bathed his feet with her tears' : ephremic interpretations of Luke 7.36-50
- Ch. 4. The early Syrian perspective
- Ch. 5. The context of Syrian commentaries on the 'sinful woman'
- Sect. IV. 'That sweet life-restoring sorrow of which the apostle spoke' : Isaac of Ninevah's teachings on tears of repentance
- Ch. 6. The Sitz im Leben of Isaac
- Ch. 7. Encratism and human integrity
- Ch. 8. Hierarchies of the spiritual state
- Ch. 9. Humanity's filiation with God
- Sect. V. 'You will see him whom no man has seen' : Symeon the New Theologian's reappropriation of the desert teachings
- Ch. 10. Context and biography
- Ch. 11. Symeon's sources and influences : Messalianism, Donatism and Macarius
- Ch. 12. Eulabes as the New Theologian's prime source
- Ch. 13. Symeon the New Theologian and Penthos
- Ch. 14. The authority of Penthos and its sacramental roots.