Isaac of Nineveh's ascetical eschatology
By: Jason Scully
Edition: First edition.
Series: Oxford early Christian studies; Oxford early Christian studies
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Oxford, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780198803584
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: RELIGION / Christian Church / History; Eschatology; Asceticism; History of doctrines; History; Middle Ages; RELIGION / Christianity / History
Description: "Isaac of Nineveh's Ascetical Eschatology demonstrates that Isaac's eschatology is an original synthesis based on ideas garnered from a distinctively Syriac cultural milieu. Jason Scully investigates six sources relevant to the study of Isaac's Syriac source material and cultural heritage. These include ideas adapted from Syriac authors like Ephrem, John the Solitary, and Narsai, but also adapted from the Syriac versions of texts originally written in Greek, like Evagrius's Gnostic Chapters, Pseudo-Dionysius's Mystical Theology, and the Pseudo-Macarian homilies. Isaac's eschatological synthesis of this material is a sophisticated discourse on the psychological transformation that occurs when the mind has an experience of God. It begins with the premise that asceticism was part of God's original plan for creation. Isaac says that God created human beings with infantile knowledge and that God intended from the beginning for Adam and Eve to leave the Garden of Eden. Once outside the garden, human beings would have to pursue mature knowledge through bodily asceticism."--Back cover
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-182) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The East-Syriac Reception of Evagrius's Gnostic Chapters; title: Felix Culpa : The Infantile Adam and Asceticism as an Inherent Part of Creation; title: Isaac of Nineveh's Eschatology : The Influence of John the Solitary; title: The Syriac Sources for Isaac of Nineveh's Development of Wonder and Astonishment; title: The Greek Sources for Isaac of Nineveh's Development of Wonder and Astonishment - Excursus : Isaac of Nineveh's Moral Psychology; title: Wonder as the Culmination of Isaac of Nineveh's Eschatology.