Evagrius and Gregory mind, soul, and body in 4th century

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Corrigan, Kevin (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham (England) ; Burlington (Vermont) : Ashgate 2009.
Colección:Ashgate studies in philosophy & theology in late antiquity
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Evagrius and Gregory : ascetic master, pastoral father
  • Why Evagrius and Gregory?
  • Evagrius
  • The character of Evagrius' writings
  • Gregory
  • Origins of basilian monasticism
  • Messalianism : Gregory and pseudo-macarius
  • Christian upheavals
  • Background to the upheavals of the 3rd and 4th centuries : arianism, origenism, hellenism, and platonism
  • Mind, soul, body : an overview of Evagrius' and Gregory's thought
  • Opening up the question : ancient terms, contemporary problems
  • Critical context : Evagrius and Gregory
  • The meaning and scope of impassibility or purity of heart in Evagrius and Gregory
  • Apatheia : the broader background
  • Plato
  • Aristotle
  • Evagrius and Gregory : from stillness to purity of heart
  • Gregory and Plotinus
  • Degrees of impassibility and purity of heart
  • The expansion of the tripartite soul
  • Uncovering the origins and structure of the 7 deadly sins tradition : Evagrius and the 8 reasonings
  • The 8 reasonings
  • Noêmata (representations or concepts)
  • Thought not based on intellect
  • Noêmata and demons
  • At the origins of the deadly sins tradition : the strange structure of matter and thought
  • Evagrius and republic 8-9
  • A new reading of the Logismoi
  • Platonic tripartition-aristotelian bipartition : the republic in Evagrius and Gregory
  • Demonic suggestion
  • Evagrius' demonology : classification, demonic action, and cognitive psychology
  • Classification of demons and the spiritual life
  • Gregory and the fall of intellect
  • Plotinus and the fall of intellect in matter
  • Evil : Gregory and Plotinus/Iamblichus
  • Body into mind : the scientific eye in Evagrius
  • Reading the body : the problem of the intelligible body
  • Body-conception and self-knowledge
  • Body, soul, and scientific cognition
  • Mind/soul-body : the classic desert formulation
  • Transmigration and Evagrius' extended world
  • The spiritual senses : transformation from above
  • Is Evagrius' metaphysics monistic?
  • Gregory's anthropology : Trinity, humanity, and body-soul formation
  • Introduction : the problems
  • Trinitarian thought
  • Humanity
  • Gender and the unity of humanity
  • Substance and passion
  • Whole-formation
  • Intelligible body-soul
  • Medicine and bodily structure
  • The resurrection-body : continuity, identity and transformation
  • The human in the divine : the dialogical expansion of mind and heart in Evagrius
  • Reintegration
  • Gnostikos : the gnostic life
  • Theology and prayer
  • Experience of prayer
  • Pathways into infinity : Gregory of Nyssa and the mystical life
  • Individuals
  • Individual and substance : human beings and the Trinity
  • Substance : persons and community
  • Pathways : divine/human being-with
  • Mystical theology : kataphatic and apophatic on the pathway into being
  • Identity and continuity : heart, thought, and mind
  • The role of faith
  • Unity, aloneness, self-identity, and form
  • Testing the boundaries of language
  • Conclusion: Neither boundary nor distance.