Cyriacus of Tagrit and his Book on Divine Providence / / Mikael Oez.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Oez, Mikael,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (563 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; PART VI. TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS --; 6.1. Cyriacus’ BDP --; Treatise 6.3. [That the incarnation of God the Word is also appropriate for God] --; Treatise 6.4. Concerning [the question], if the coming of the Lord was beneficial and salvific for our race, why did He not come at the beginning of the ages, but rather at the end of the ages? --; Treatise 6.5. Concerning why Christ God came to the testing of death and endured this through the Cross. --; Treatise 7.1. That God is good and just in nature, and in knowledge, and in will, [and in power], and in operation --; Treatise 12.1. [That God is the cause of good things, and He is never the cause of evil things.] --; Treatise 12.2. Concerning the fact that all disciplines that are brought about by God are good and advantageous, and there is nothing evil in them, even if, due to human weakness, they are in certain places called evils --; Treatise 12.3. Concerning that God does not in any way willingly agree with or accept the impudent purpose of evil beings, and so neither [does He agree] with that of Satan and the evil spirits --; Treatise 12.4. Concerning the fact that even if God on many occasions allows the activities of demons or of evil people to have power over humans,—for reasons which He alone knows—even so He never desists from His protection and care for them --; Treatise 12.5. Concerning the fact that none of the created or made beings is able to comprehend the depth of God’s judgements --; Treatise 13.1. Concerning the fact that all that happen are wisely governed through Divine Providence, and are not due to fortunes or fates, or astrological birth-signs, or the providence of these, as has seemed good to the deceivers --; Treatise 13.2. Concerning whether wealth and poverty are distributed by God to all who possess these, or only to a few, or whether [they are distributed] by fates, and fortunes, and through the motion of astrological birth-signs, as the deceivers rave --; Treatise 14.1. Concerning whether God’s care is different or the same in the case of deaths which are calm and peaceful, and those which are sudden, or grievous, or agonizing, or through murders, or in [mine]-cuttings, or through other accidents, at various stages of life, whether full-grown or not full-grown --; Treatise 14.2. Concerning infants who are snatched away when they have just received baptism, and concerning those who are taken away in their childhood without having been deemed worthy of baptism; there is also [discussion] in it about those who are permitted to flourish in this life in full-grown stages [of life] even though they are going to become evil --; Treatise 14.3. Concerning the various plagues which affect various kinds and age-groups [of people], and whether each person departs from life in this world at his own [determined] end or not, and whether a fixed end is determined by God [for people] in general, or for each person individually --; Treatise 14.4. Concerning the preparation of wars, and the victories and defeats of nations and kingdoms --; Treatise 15.1. Whether all things that are going to happen happen because God knows them, or whether He knows them because they are going to happen, or because of both reasons at the same time --; Treatise 15.2. Concerning whether all things that God knows will happen happen in any case, and do not fail to happen, or whether they do fail [to happen] --; Treatise 15.3. Concerning whether God wills, or does not will, the accomplishment of all those things which He knows will happen --; Treatise 16.1. Concerning whether there is any of those things which happen through God’s providence for His creatures that is newly brought to His knowledge, or [whether] it is eternally manifest to Him as the Knower of All --; Treatise 16.2. Concerning whether the knowledge of God concerning the benefits which, of whatever kind, are brought into being for livingbeings through Him, diminishes with the accomplishment of the benefits, or not --; Treatise 16.3. Concerning why God’s knowledge is different from His will in regards to those things which happen --; Treatise 16.4. Concerning why God’s approval and command are different from His permission --; Treatise 17.1. Concerning whether the will of rational beings is theirs by nature, or not --; Treatise 17.2. Concerning the [reproductive] impulse implanted within us, that it is ours by nature, and not something from outside --; Treatise 18.1. Concerning that everyone departs from this life at his own particular [determined] end, and not by chance --; Treatise 18.2. About problematic passages taken from the Spirit-inspired Scripture --; Treatise 19.1. Concerning Divine Providence in the period of time from the beginning of our creation until the flood --; Treatise 19.2. Concerning Divine Providence, in the period of time from the flood to the building of the tower of Babel --; Treatise 19.3. Concerning Divine Providence, in the period of time from the division of languages and the fall of the tower until Abraham --; Treatise 19.4. Concerning Divine Providence, in the period of time from Abraham until the Law of Moses --; Treatise 19.5. Concerning Divine Providence, in the period of time from the Law of Moses until the coming of Christ --; Treatise 19.6. Concerning Divine Providence, in the period of time from the coming of Christ until the holy teachers --; Treatise 19.7. Concerning Divine Providence, in the period of time from the holy teachers until the end of the world --; Treatise 19.8. Concerning the fact that there are eleven causes of the afflictions and of the various tests that come upon the saints --; Treatise 20.1. Concerning whether souls have knowledge after their separation from bodies --; Treatise 20.2. Concerning the fact that the departed gain benefit from the offerings that are offered on their behalf --; Treatise 20.3. Concerning the passage of souls after their departure from bodies, and what they encounter, and where they arrive and remain before the resurrection --; Treatise 21.1. Concerning the Accuser and his angels, and what Gehenna is, and that it was prepared for them, and was prepared for the benefit of the Kingdom --; Treatise 21.2. Against those who say that God made two [kinds of] beings or creatures, one [destined] for the Kingdom and the other for Gehenna --; Treatise 22. From the Gospel of Matthew, on those [passages] concerning the Antichrist and the coming of the Lord --; Treatise 23. Against those who say that it is inappropriate for Antichrist to be permitted to come, since all this destruction that is mentioned will happen on his arrival --; Treatise 24. On that parable in Matthew’s Gospel concerning that net which was cast, or thrown, into the sea --; Treatise 25. Concerning the fact that souls do not precede bodies, [about which] we were questioned by Theodosius, bishop of Seleucia --; Treatise 26. Concerning the question which was asked by Walid and Yeshu', the believers, who live in the village of Tirminaz --; Treatise 27. Concerning that passions for the love of money, and also concerning that for fornication --; Treatise 28. Concerning passion for the desire for leadership, and also that of vain glory --; 10 Questions. The explanation of the questions asked by the deacon Yeshu', who lives in the village of Tirminaz --; Colophon --; Again, the confession of faith of the holy and divinely clothed Mor Cyriacus, Patriarch of Antioch of Syria --; Fragmentary Canons --; Note by Binder --; 6.2. The Creed Drawn up at Qenneshrin in A.D. 797 --; 6.3. The Report of Accusations --; 6.4. The Letter Written at the Synod of Beth Gobrin in A.D. 808 --; 6.5. The Letter Written at the Synod of Mosul in A.D. 817 --; 6.6. Patriarch George’s letter on the Heavenly Bread --; 6.7. Homily on ‘The Vineyard of the Beloved’ --; 6.8. The Liturgy of Cyriacus --; 6.9. Three Madroshe on Cyriacus --; Biblical Citation Index --; Patristic Citation Index --; ′Saints′ & ′Heretics′ in the Homologia
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463234669; 9783111024141; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463234669
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Mikael Oez.

Cyriacus of Tagrit was patriarch of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch between 793 and 817 under the Abbasid Caliphate, a turbulent and divided period in the history of his church in the Middle East. This work, for the first time, collects together and provides a critical edition and annotated English translation of all of his extant and accessible writings. The book focuses on his major composition, The Book on Divine Providence.