Teachings on the Prayer of the Heart in the Greek and Syrian Fathers : The Significance of Body and Community /
Gather, Jill
Teachings on the Prayer of the Heart in the Greek and Syrian Fathers : The Significance of Body and Community / Jill Gather. - 1 online resource (303 p.) - Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics .
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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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781463203832 9781463236281
10.31826/9781463236281 doi
Contemplation.
RELIGION / Christianity / Literature & the Arts.
BV5091.C7 / .G384 2014
248.34
Teachings on the Prayer of the Heart in the Greek and Syrian Fathers : The Significance of Body and Community / Jill Gather. - 1 online resource (303 p.) - Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics .
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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781463203832 9781463236281
10.31826/9781463236281 doi
Contemplation.
RELIGION / Christianity / Literature & the Arts.
BV5091.C7 / .G384 2014
248.34