Isaac of Nineveh's ascetical eschatology / Jason Scully.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scully, Jason, author.

Series:

Oxford early Christian studies

Oxford Early Christian Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Isaac, Bishop of Nineveh, active 7th century.

Isaac.

Asceticism--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Asceticism.

History.

Eschatology--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Eschatology.

Eschatology--History of doctrines.

Physical Description:

xxv, 187 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press 2017.

Summary:

"Isaac of Nineveh's Ascetical Eschatology demonstrates that Isaac's eschatology is an original synthesis based on ideas garnered from a distinctively Syriac cultural milieu. Jason Scully investigates six sources relevant to the study of Isaac's Syriac source material and cultural heritage. These include ideas adapted from Syriac authors like Ephrem, John the Solitary, and Narsai, but also adapted from the Syriac versions of texts originally written in Greek, like Evagrius's Gnostic Chapters, Pseudo-Dionysius's Mystical Theology, and the Pseudo-Macarian homilies. Isaac's eschatological synthesis of this material is a sophisticated discourse on the psychological transformation that occurs when the mind has an experience of God. It begins with the premise that asceticism was part of God's original plan for creation. Isaac says that God created human beings with infantile knowledge and that God intended from the beginning for Adam and Eve to leave the Garden of Eden. Once outside the garden, human beings would have to pursue mature knowledge through bodily asceticism."--Back cover

Contents:

1 The East-Syriac Reception of Evagrius's Gnostic Chapters 1

2 Felix Culpa: The Infantile Adam and Asceticism as an Inherent Part of Creation 27

3 Isaac of Nineveh's Eschatology: The Influence of John the Solitary 48

4 The Syriac Sources for Isaac of Nineveh's Development of Wonder and Astonishment 73

5 The Greek Sources for Isaac of Nineveh's Development of Wonder and Astonishment 92

6 Excursus: Isaac of Nineveh's Moral Psychology 117

7 Wonder as the Culmination of Isaac of Nineveh's Eschatology 135.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-182) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780198803584

0198803583

OCLC:

973401286