Knowledge and Experience in the Writings of St. Isaac of Nineveh

✍ Scribed by Valentin Vesa

• Publisher: Gorgias Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 347
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

One of the most popular monastic authors with a nearly universal spread over time is Isaac of Nineveh, a mystic of the late 7th century, who belonged to the East Syriac Church. This book is dedicated to the doctrine of knowledge, as described in Isaac of Nineveh's discourses, in its double dimension, worldly/philosophical and theological (the former considered to be more discursive/intellectual and the latter intuitive/ experiential) and the rapport established between these two, prolonged in the concept of vision, as the highest form of spiritual experience.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
1. Isaac of Nineveh: an ecumenical figure of the East Syriac Church
2. Isaac of Nineveh’s Christology and the internal disputes within the East Syriac community between the 6th to the 8th centuries
3. The history of divine Economy from Creation to Eschatological Time: Incarnation as foundational event for divine knowledge
4. Isaac’s cognitive terminology
5. The process of knowledge
6. The Dogmatic position on spiritual knowledge
Conclusion
Bibliography