PROTOMONAHISMUL SIRIAC ÎNTRE PREOŢIA INIMII ȘI MISTICA PNEVMATICĂ
SYRIAC PROTOMONACHISM BETWEEN THE PRIESTHOOD OF THE HEART AND PNEUMATIC MYSTICISM
Author(s): Ovidiu Panaite, FĂRCAȘ-BĂRĂIAN DUMITRUSubject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History, History of Church(es), Local History / Microhistory, Middle Ages, Theology and Religion
Published by: Editura Universității Aurel Vlaicu
Keywords: Syrian monasticism; pilgrimage; “Liber Graduum”; asceticism; anthropology;
Summary/Abstract: Fatherhood and spiritual guidance subsidiarily affirm the monastic way of understanding anthropology itself. Actually, spiritual experience is acquired through living example, through the exercise of spiritual fatherhood, through the fiery words of Scripture and the Fathers. Moments of great encounters between the soul and God are very rare and fleeting in people’s lives. In many of the lives of the saints, these are ordinary realities, a stable nature. In this case, man fully lives this experience through Christ in the Holy Spirit. This experience of grace was something extremely sought after and desired in the Byzantine (even secular) society of the 13th-14th centuries. We propose in this study to identify the features of Syriac proto-Manism through pilgrimage as an ascetic form of repentance and through the spirituality contained in “Ktabâ dmasqatâ”.
Journal: Studia Theologica et Historica Aradensia
- Issue Year: 5/2023
- Issue No: 5
- Page Range: 56-74
- Page Count: 19
- Language: Romanian