Dragon's wine and angel's bread
Subtitle: the teaching of Evagrius Ponticus on anger and meekness
By: Gabriel Bunge ; translated from the German by Anthony P. Gythiel.
Contributors: Bunge, Gabriel, 1940-
Publisher: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Crestwood, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780881413373
Subjects: Anger -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Early works to 1800; Theology, Doctrinal -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600
Genres: Early works to 1800
Work titles: Drachenwein und Engelsbrot.
Description: "Evagrius Ponticus (343-399 AD), an influential writer among the early Christian monks, spent sixteen years in the desert of Egypt, mostly at Kellia (the Cells). He was a disciple of the two Macarii - saints of Egypt and of Alexandria - under whose guidance he became a "philosopher," one who writes about the Christian life." "This study of Evagrius' writings on anger, and its causes, consequences and cures, offers useful spiritual insight with practical applications for the post-modern reader. Drawing from Evagrius' voluminous writings, the author examines the stirrings of the human heart, deftly diagnosing the souces of overblown and wayward anger." --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "Agressiveness" : an entirely natural concern; title: The evagrian image of man; title: The vice of demons; title: Anger in the list of the eight evil thoughts; title: The essential definition of vice; title: The consequences; title: Anger and prayer; title: The blinding of the intellect; title: The means of healing; title: "Pure prayer"; title: Dialogue with God; title: The virtue of the angels; title: "For his teaching was very meek".