Evagrius and Gregory
Subtitle: mind, soul, and body in 4th century
By: Kevin Corrigan.
Series: Ashgate studies in philosophy & theology in late antiquity
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Ltd.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754616856
Subjects: Evagrius, -- Ponticus, -- 345?-399; Gregory, -- of Nyssa, Saint, -- ca. 335-ca. 394
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Evagrius and Gregory : ascetic master, pastoral father; title: Why Evagrius and Gregory?; title: Evagrius; title: The character of Evagrius' writings; title: Gregory; title: Origins of basilian monasticism; title: Messalianism : Gregory and pseudo-macarius; title: Christian upheavals; title: Background to the upheavals of the 3rd and 4th centuries : arianism, origenism, hellenism, and platonism; title: Mind, soul, body : an overview of Evagrius' and Gregory's thought; title: Opening up the question : ancient terms, contemporary problems; title: Critical context : Evagrius and Gregory; title: The meaning and scope of impassibility or purity of heart in Evagrius and Gregory; title: Apatheia : the broader background; title: Plato; title: Aristotle; title: Evagrius and Gregory : from stillness to purity of heart; title: Gregory and Plotinus; title: Degrees of impassibility and purity of heart; title: The expansion of the tripartite soul; title: Uncovering the origins and structure of the 7 deadly sins tradition : Evagrius and the 8 reasonings; title: The 8 reasonings; title: Noêmata (representations or concepts); title: Thought not based on intellect; title: Noêmata and demons; title: At the origins of the deadly sins tradition : the strange structure of matter and thought; title: Evagrius and republic 8-9; title: A new reading of the Logismoi; title: Platonic tripartition-aristotelian bipartition : the republic in Evagrius and Gregory; title: Demonic suggestion; title: Evagrius' demonology : classification, demonic action, and cognitive psychology; title: Classification of demons and the spiritual life; title: Gregory and the fall of intellect; title: Plotinus and the fall of intellect in matter; title: Evil : Gregory and Plotinus/Iamblichus; title: Body into mind : the scientific eye in Evagrius; title: Reading the body : the problem of the intelligible body; title: Body-conception and self-knowledge; title: Body, soul, and scientific cognition; title: Mind/soul-body : the classic desert formulation; title: Transmigration and Evagrius' extended world; title: The spiritual senses : transformation from above; title: Is Evagrius' metaphysics monistic?; title: Gregory's anthropology : Trinity, humanity, and body-soul formation; title: Introduction : the problems; title: Trinitarian thought; title: Humanity; title: Gender and the unity of humanity; title: Substance and passion; title: Whole-formation; title: Intelligible body-soul; title: Medicine and bodily structure; title: The resurrection-body : continuity, identity and transformation; title: The human in the divine : the dialogical expansion of mind and heart in Evagrius; title: Reintegration; title: Gnostikos : the gnostic life; title: Theology and prayer; title: Experience of prayer; title: Pathways into infinity : Gregory of Nyssa and the mystical life; title: Individuals; title: Individual and substance : human beings and the Trinity; title: Substance : persons and community; title: Pathways : divine/human being-with; title: Mystical theology : kataphatic and apophatic on the pathway into being; title: Identity and continuity : heart, thought, and mind; title: The role of faith; title: Unity, aloneness, self-identity, and form; title: Testing the boundaries of language; title: Conclusion: Neither boundary nor distance.