Joy-bearing grief : tears of contrition in the writings of the early Syrian and Byzantine fathers /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2004.
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| Series: | The medieval Mediterranean,
v. 57 |
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=173985 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.