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This book is the first full-length study of Evagrian apatheia and the most detailed examination to date of Evagrian anthropology. It situates them in their overall context of cosmology, salvation history, and the spiritual life.
List of contents
Introduction 1 The Background to Evagrius' Doctrine of Apatheia 2 The Monastic Life: A Journey Within a Journey 3 Protology and Eschatology: The Journey of Salvation History 4 Christ: Mediator, Teacher, Physician 5 Anthropology: The Human Person as Nous, Soul, Body, and Heart 6 Pathos 7 Empatheia 8 The Practical Life: Dying with Christ 9 Apatheia: The Health of the Soul 10 The Gnostic Life: Rising with Christ
About the author
Monica Tobon holds a BA in Philosophy, and an MA and PhD in Classics, all focusing on Ancient and Late Antique Philosophy, from University College London. She lectured for six years in the history of philosophy and Christian spirituality at the Franciscan International Study Centre in Canterbury while continuing to work on Evagrius. She is currently Honorary Research Fellow at UCL's Department of Greek and Latin. This is her first book, but she has previously contributed to and co-edited with Markus Vinzent
Evagrius on Contemplation, Supplement to
Studia Patristica 57 (Peeters, 2013), contributed to and co-edited with Ilaria L. E. Ramelli, Kevin Corrigan, and Markus Vinzent
Evagrius Between Origen, the Cappadocians and Neoplatonism, Supplement to
Studia Patristica 83 (Peeters, 2017), and also published several other peer-reviewed papers on Evagrius.
Summary
This book is the first full-length study of Evagrian apatheia and the most detailed examination to date of Evagrian anthropology. It situates them in their overall context of cosmology, salvation history, and the spiritual life.
