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The vision of divine light, in the writings of Abba Evagrius Ponticus

Author(s): Agapie Corbu
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Facultatea de Teologie Ortodoxă Alba Iulia
Keywords: Evagrius of Pontus; mystical experience;Holy Trinity;

Summary/Abstract: Holy Trinity, standing out the christological character of this mystical experience, as well as the influence of the contemplative progressed monks over the ChIn his study, the author is analysing the principals Evagrius Ponticus texts, in which this philocalical author speaks about the vision of the divine light. The analyse reveals the gradation in the divine light’s vision, the ontological distinction between the own light mind’s contemplation and the vision of the light of the urch.

  • Issue Year: XX/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 25-42
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Romanian