The ladder of prayer and the ship of stirrings : the praying self in late antique East Syrian Christianity /

"Doubts about sacrifices, prayers, fate, and providence in the second- to fifth-century Mediterranean world produced new concepts of individual prayer for Christians and non-Christians alike. The Ladder of Prayer and the Ship of Stirrings explores the discourse on the praying self as an ascetic...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Bitton-Ashkelony, Bruria (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Leuven : Peeters, [2019]
Collection:Late antique history and religion ; 22.
Sujets:
To 1500
Prayer > Orthodox Eastern Church.
Prayer > Oriental Orthodox churches.
Self > Religious aspects > History > To 1500.
Syrian churches > Doctrines > History.
Syriac Christians > Religious life.
Christian literature, Early > Syriac authors > History and criticism.
Fathers of the church, Syriac.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Prière > Église orthodoxe.
Prière > Églises monophysites.
Églises syriennes > Doctrines > Histoire.
Chrétiens syriaques > Vie religieuse.
Pères de l'Église syriaques.
Église > Histoire > ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
Christian literature, Early > Syriac authors.
Church history > Primitive and early church.
Self > Religious aspects.
Syrian churches > Doctrines.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Doubts and Changes: Toward a New Discourse on Prayer in Late Antiquity
  • 'For God is Silence and in Silence is He Sung': John of Apamea on Silent Prayer
  • From Evagrius Ponticus' Pure Prayer to Isaac of Nineveh's Non-Prayer
  • Dadisho' Qaṭraya: Scrutinizing the Self, Scrutinizing the Scriptures
  • Shem'on d-Ṭaybutheh: 'Prayer in a Unifi ed Manner' and the Somatic Turn
  • John of Dalyatha: Hidden Worship and Vanishing of the Self
  • Joseph Hazzaya on the Ladder of Prayer, the Ship of Stirrings and the Helmsman of the Boat.

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