TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gather,Jill
TI  - Teachings on the Prayer of the Heart in the Greek and Syrian Fathers: The Significance of Body and Community 
T2  - Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics
SN  - 9781463203832
AV  - BV5091.C7 .G384 2014
U1  - 248.34 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Piscataway, NJ : 
PB  - Gorgias Press, 
KW  - Contemplation
KW  - RELIGION / Christianity / Literature & the Arts
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463236281
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781463236281
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781463236281/original
ER  -