Teachings on the Prayer of the Heart in the Greek and Syrian Fathers : : The Significance of Body and Community / / Jill Gather.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2015
• VerfasserIn: Gather, Jill,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (303 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; ABBREVIATIONS --; INTRODUCTION --; 1. THE PRAYER OF THE HEART: ITS BIBLICAL ORIGINS --; 2. THE PRAYER OF THE HEART: ITS SYRIAN CHRISTIAN BACKGROUND --; 3. THE PRAYER OF THE HEART: ITS GREEK CHRISTIAN BACKGROUND --; 4. THE EARLY BYZANTINE SYNTHESIS --; 5. RETROSPECTIVE AND PROSPECTIVE --; CONCLUSION --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463236281; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463236281
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jill Gather.

The prayer of the heart is an early Christian contemplative tradition of striking profundity and beauty. Christian authors of the Greek- as well as the Syriac-speaking world placed the heart at the center of a mystical theology that viewed the body as a God-given instrument of divine ascent and the relational setting of Christian existence as an important means of experiencing God's abiding inner presence. This work sheds light on the Syrian church's approach to the mystery of the divine encounter.