| John Climacus: The Ladder of Divine Ascent Revised Edition Contributor(s): Luibheid, Colm (Editor), Luibheid, Colm (Translator), Russell, Norman (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0809123304 ISBN-13: 9780809123308 Publisher: Paulist Press OUR PRICE: $24.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1982 Annotation: John Climacus (c. 579-649) was abbot of the monastery of Catherine on Mount Sinai. His Ladder was the most widely used handbook of the ascetical life in the ancient Greek Church. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - Religion | Christian Living - General - Religion | Spirituality |
| Dewey: 248.481 |
| LCCN: 82060540 |
| Lexile Measure: 1190 |
| Series: Classics of Western Spirituality (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 5.94" W x 9.12" (1.00 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Catholic - Religious Orientation - Christian - Topical - Home Schooling |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This series is a testimony to the Spirit breathing where He wills. America John Climacus: The Ladder of Divine Ascent edited and translated by Colm Luibheid and Norman Russell notes on translation by Norman Russell, preface by Kallistos Ware Prayer is the mother and daughter of tears. It is an expiation of sin, a bridge across temptation, a bulwark against affliction. It wipes out conflict, is the work of angels, and is the nourishment of everything spiritual. John Climacus (c. 579-649) The Ladder of Divine Ascent was the most widely used handbook of the ascetic life in the ancient Greek Church. Popular among both lay and monastics, it was translated into Latin, Syriac, Arabic, Armenian, Old Slavonic, and many modern languages. It was written while the author (who received his surname from this book) was abbot of the monastery of Catherine on Mount Sinai. As reflected in the title, the ascetical life is portrayed as a ladder which each aspirant must ascend, each step being a virtue to be acquired, or a vice to be surrendered. Its thirty steps reflect the hidden life of Christ himself. This work had a fundamental influence in the particularly the Hesychastic, Jesus Prayer, or Prayer of the Heart movement. Pierre Pourrat in his History of Christian Spirituality calls John Climacus the most important ascetical theologian of the East, at this epoch, who enjoyed a great reputation and exercised and important influence on future centuries. |