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

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2015
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (303 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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