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Jeremy Driscoll makes available for the first time in English the text known as Ad Monachos, by Evagrius Ponticus (345-399), who was among the first of the desert fathers to articulate in writing the wisdom of the monastic movement. The text is a collection of 137 proverbs composed in a style that imitates the proverbs of biblical Wisdom literature. Besides offering the Greek text and an English translation, Driscoll examines its structure and style, and offers commentary on different proverbs.
Jeremy Driscoll makes available for the first time in English the text known as Ad Monachos, by Evagrius Ponticus (345-399), who was among the first of the desert fathers to articulate in writing the wisdom of the monastic movement. The text is a collection of 137 proverbs composed in a style that imitates the proverbs of biblical Wisdom literature. Besides offering the Greek text and an English translation, Driscoll examines its structure and style, and offers commentary on different proverbs.
This noteworthy book: --is the only major commentary in any modern language on Ad Monachos. --demonstrates how the proverbs in their order form a rich spiritual architecture. --is presently the single most comprehensive book in English on Evagrius.
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Jeremy Driscoll, O.S.B,. who holds an S.T.D. from the Pontificio Ateneo Sant' Anselmo, Rome, is professor in graduate theology at Mount Angel Seminary, St. Benedict, OR, and associate professor in theology at the Pontifical Athenaeum Sant' Anselmo in Rome. He has published two books on Evagrius and numerous scholarly articles.
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Heirs of God, listen to the reasons of God. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
personal experience standing, deriving evil, perfect passionlessness, principal evil thoughts, second natural contemplation, proverbs that follow, derive evil, fourteen proverbs, vigorous condensation, scatters knowledge, irascible part, final proverb, concupiscible part, fragments grecs, individual proverbs, three proverbs, soul accomplished, flight from the body, gentle monk, final blessedness, meditating mind, fallen mind, practicing death, passionate part, various proverbs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Holy Trinity, Apophthegmata Patrum, Holy Spirit, Coptic Life, Kephalaia Gnostica, Lausiac History, Macarius the Great, Stage Three, Geistliche Vaterschaft, Macarius of Alexandria, Epistula Fidei, Bases of the Monastic Life, Gregory Nazianzus, Marcus Aurelius, New Testament, John's Gospel, Kephalaza Gnostica, Last Supper, Les Apophthegmata, Stage One, Sun of Justice, Didymus the Blind New!
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Heirs of God, listen to the reasons of God. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
personal experience standing, deriving evil, perfect passionlessness, principal evil thoughts, second natural contemplation, proverbs that follow, derive evil, fourteen proverbs, vigorous condensation, scatters knowledge, irascible part, final proverb, concupiscible part, fragments grecs, individual proverbs, three proverbs, soul accomplished, flight from the body, gentle monk, final blessedness, meditating mind, fallen mind, practicing death, passionate part, various proverbs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Holy Trinity, Apophthegmata Patrum, Holy Spirit, Coptic Life, Kephalaia Gnostica, Lausiac History, Macarius the Great, Stage Three, Geistliche Vaterschaft, Macarius of Alexandria, Epistula Fidei, Bases of the Monastic Life, Gregory Nazianzus, Marcus Aurelius, New Testament, John's Gospel, Kephalaza Gnostica, Last Supper, Les Apophthegmata, Stage One, Sun of Justice, Didymus the Blind New!
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- The Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Cistercian studies 59) by Benedicta Ward on page 277, page 278, and Back Matter
- The Roots of Egyptian Christianity (Studies in Antiquity and Christianity) by Birger A. Pearson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Old Testament Theology: The Theology of Israel's Historical Traditions v. 1 by Gerhard Von Rad on page 164, and Back Matter
- Those Who Ponder Proverbs: Aphoristic Thinking and Biblical Literature (Bible and literature series) by James G. Williams on page 159, and Back Matter
- OLD TESTAMENT THEOLOGY VOL I (OTL) (Old Testament Library) by GERHARD VON RAD on page 164, and Back Matter
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