The Syriac Fathers on Prayer and the Spiritual Life

Volume 101

By: Sebastian Brock (Translator)

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The textbook and pulpit notion that all Christendom is divided between Greek East and Latin West overlooks an ancient and still continuing third stream of tradition: Syriac Christianity.

Cut off from the rest of the Christian world by theological controversy in the fifth century, Arab conquest in the seventh, and Mongul invasions in the thirteenth, Syrian Christians continued to celebrate the christian mysteries, to meditate on Scripture, and to apply its teachings to their lives.

Some of them, attempting to realize here on earth their baptismal potential to re-enter paradise, chose a life of asceticism and single-minded devotion to Christ. Their reflections created across the centuries a rich literature. Some passed into the byzantine tradition; some remained unknown to other Christians and have never until now been translated into a modern language.

These Syriac fathers offer the modern heirs of both latin and greek Christendom new, yet ancient and enduring, insights on prayer and the spiritual life.

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. . . an outstanding introduction to a little-known region in the history of spirituality, as well as a wise store of practical counsel for those seeking to pray more deeplyChurch History

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Abbreviations	p. viii
Preface	p. ix
General Introduction	p. x
Select Bibliography and Sources	p. xlii
Aphrahat (mid fourth century)	p. 1
Introduction
Translation
Demonstration IV, On Prayer
Ephrem (d. 373)	p. 29
Introduction
Translations
Hymns on Faith, no XX
Armenian Hymns, no I
Book of Steps (late fourth century)	p. 41
Introduction
Translations
Discourse XII, On the ministry of the hidden and the manifest church
Discourse XVIII, On the prayer of tears
Evagrius (d. 399)	p. 63
Introduction
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Admonition on prayer
John of Apamea (first half of fifth century)	p. 77
Introduction
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Letter to Hesychius
Philoxenus of Mabbug (d. 523)	p. 101
Introduction
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On the indwelling of the Holy Spirit
Excerpts on prayer
Babai (early sixth century?)	p. 135
Introduction
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Letter to Cyriacus
Anonymous I (sixth century?)	p. 167
Introduction
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On prayer
Anonymous II (sixth/seventh century?)	p. 179
Introduction
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On prayer
Abraham of Nathpar (fl. c. 600)	p. 187
Introduction
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On prayer
Martyrius (Sahdona) (first half of seventh century)	p. 197
Introduction
Translation
On the Office, on prayer, vigils and reading the Bible
Isaac of Nineveh (second half of seventh century)	p. 241
Introduction
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Excerpts from 'Part I'
Discourse XXII, from 'Part I'
Chapters on prayer, from 'Part II'
Discourses, from 'Part II'
Dadisho (second half of seventh century)	p. 303
Introduction
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On pure prayer
Joseph the Visionary (Abdisho) (eighth century)	p. 313
Introduction
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On spiritual prayer
On the stirrings of the mind during prayer
John the Elder (John of Dalyatha) (eighth century)	p. 327
Introduction
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Letter 5
Letter 12
Prayers of the Mystics	p. 339
Introduction
Translations
John of Apamea
Isaac of Nineveh
Joseph the Visionary
John the Elder
Chronological Table	p. 365
Index of Biblical References	p. 367
Subject Index	p. 373
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