On Ascetical Life by Isaac of Nineveh

On Ascetical Life

Popular Patristics Series #11

Isaac of Nineveh with Mary Hansbury (Translator)

116 pages first pub 1989 (view editions)

nonfiction religion dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
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A reader who welcomes a slow, contemplative plunge into the shadowed workings of the human will and its transformation will find this book quietly magnetic.

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St Isaac of Ninevah produced a monastic anthropology that has been a major influence on all of Byzantine spiritual literature. The way toward God was threefold: the way of the body, the way of the soul, and the way of the spirit. In the first stag...

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