The Eastern Christian term for a monastic from the desert fathers onwards was a ‘mourner’. The so... more The Eastern Christian term for a monastic from the desert fathers onwards was a ‘mourner’. The solitary grieved for his sin, and expressed his penitence in tears of lamentation. The remorse he felt was, paradoxically, joyful because it brought him closer to God. The ‘mourner’ within the Christian community articulated the remorse of his fellows as well as himself. The term was applied to men specifically, and denotes a shift from the practice of secular mourning being the province of women. This article will explore male self-identity in two contemporaries from very different contexts, John Climacus, an abbot of Mount Sinai, whose ‘Ladder of Divine Ascent’ is the Lenten reading today in every Orthodox monastery, and Isaac of Nineveh, who exemplifies the Syrian outworking of the tradition.
... Cyril of Alexandria's famous Third Letter to Nestorius continues the the... more ... Cyril of Alexandria's famous Third Letter to Nestorius continues the theme, providing the basis ... The Cappadocian Fathers of the fourth century were among the first Chris-tian thinkers ... In other words, Byzantine Christianity is conceptually rooted in Christology; much of what holds ...
The Eastern Christian term for a monastic from the desert fathers onwards was a ‘mourner’. The so... more The Eastern Christian term for a monastic from the desert fathers onwards was a ‘mourner’. The solitary grieved for his sin, and expressed his penitence in tears of lamentation. The remorse he felt was, paradoxically, joyful because it brought him closer to God. The ‘mourner’ within the Christian community articulated the remorse of his fellows as well as himself. The term was applied to men specifically, and denotes a shift from the practice of secular mourning being the province of women. This article will explore male self-identity in two contemporaries from very different contexts, John Climacus, an abbot of Mount Sinai, whose ‘Ladder of Divine Ascent’ is the Lenten reading today in every Orthodox monastery, and Isaac of Nineveh, who exemplifies the Syrian outworking of the tradition.
... Cyril of Alexandria's famous Third Letter to Nestorius continues the the... more ... Cyril of Alexandria's famous Third Letter to Nestorius continues the theme, providing the basis ... The Cappadocian Fathers of the fourth century were among the first Chris-tian thinkers ... In other words, Byzantine Christianity is conceptually rooted in Christology; much of what holds ...
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