Headings on spiritual knowledge
Subtitle: (the second part, chapters 1-3)
By: Isaac of Nineveh ; introduction, translation, and notes by Sebastian Brock
Contributors: Brock, Sebastian P., translator
Series: Popular patristics series -- number 63; St. Vladimir's Seminary Press Popular patristics series -- no. 63.
Publisher: St Vladimir's Seminary Press; St Vladimirs Seminary Pr; St. Vladimir's Seminary Press
Published: 2022
Place of publication: Yonkers, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780881417029; 9780881417036
Subjects: Asceticism; Early works to 1800; Spiritual life; Christianity; Medieval Sermons; Ascétisme; Ouvrages avant 1800; Vie spirituelle; Christianisme; Sermons médiévaux
Work titles: Ascetical homilies. Palguta 2.
Description: "Appearing for the first time in English, this volume contains a translation of the Kephalaia Gnostika, the first three chapters of the recently-discovered "Second Part" of the corpus of St Isaac of Nineveh (or "the Syrian"). This text touches upon many aspects of the "life of stillness," that is, the spiritual life of hermits who would later be called hesychasts, and the author explores and explains the various levels and forms of prayer and spiritual experience from his own experience"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Translated from the Syriac.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Translation; title: Chapter 1; title: Chapter 2; title: Chapter 3: Kephalaia 1; title: Kephalaia 2; title: Kephalaia 3; title: Kephalaia 4; title: Appendix; title: Select Bibliography; title: Indexes.