Hezychia bramą do zjednoczenia z Bogiem według traktatu Drabina raju św. Jana Klimaka
Hesychia as the Gateway to Union with God according to the Treatise The Ladder of Divine Ascent by St. John Climacus
Author(s): Marcin WójtowiczSubject(s): Systematic Theology, Pastoral Theology
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: John Climacus; hesychia; asceticism; mysticism;
Summary/Abstract: John Sinaites devoted the last part of his treatise The Ladder of Divine Ascent to the discussion of a breakthrough moment in asceticism, which opens the way into a mystical relationship with God. What is indinspensable to achieve it are the four gifts that a monk receives from God: hesychia, prayer, dispassion (apatheia) and love. Although each of them is vital in the process of unification, in Climacus’s opinion the most important of them is hesychia, understood as a gateway to union with God, a bridge between the intertwining spheres of asceticism and mysticism.
Journal: Poznańskie Studia Teologiczne
- Issue Year: 41/2022
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 155-169
- Page Count: 15
- Language: Polish