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

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Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t TABLE OF CONTENTS --   |t ABBREVIATIONS --   |t INTRODUCTION --   |t 1. THE PRAYER OF THE HEART: ITS BIBLICAL ORIGINS --   |t 2. THE PRAYER OF THE HEART: ITS SYRIAN CHRISTIAN BACKGROUND --   |t 3. THE PRAYER OF THE HEART: ITS GREEK CHRISTIAN BACKGROUND --   |t 4. THE EARLY BYZANTINE SYNTHESIS --   |t 5. RETROSPECTIVE AND PROSPECTIVE --   |t CONCLUSION --   |t BIBLIOGRAPHY --   |t INDEX 
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