The Spiritual Tradition in Eastern Christianity: Ascetic Psychology, Mystical Experience, and Physical Practices

The Spiritual Tradition in Eastern Christianity: Ascetic Psychology, Mystical Experience, and Physical PracticesStudies in Spirituality Supplements 26Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/QVS7TY82/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.David T.BradfordThe Spiritual Tradition in Eastern Christianity: Ascetic Psychology, Mystical Experience, and Physical Practiceshttp://syriaca.org/cbss/QVS7TY82https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/QVS7TY82https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/QVS7TY82LeuvenPeeters2016Studies in Spirituality Supplements 26<i>The Spiritual Tradition in Eastern Christianity</i> is a comprehensive survey of the means, goals, and motivations of the ascetic life as represented in texts spanning the fourth and the nineteenth century. Contemporary examples are also included. The main themes are the dynamics of the soul, the disabling effects of the passions, mental and physical ascetism, the desirable condition of dispassion, and the experience of deification. A variety of topics are addressed, including hesychast prayer, religious weeping, the spiritual senses, dream interpretation, luminous visions, the holy 'fool', ascetic demonology, and pain in ascetic practice. Typical ascetic and mystical experiences are interpreted from the psychological and the neuroscientific perspective. Comparative analyses based on Sufism, Vedantic mysticism, and especially early Buddhist psychology highlight distinctive features of the Christian ascetic life. Major figures such as Evagrius Ponticus, Maximos the Confessor, Isaac the Syrian, and Symeon the New Theologian receive extensive individual consideration. Bradford, David T. The Spiritual Tradition in Eastern Christianity: Ascetic Psychology, Mystical Experience, and Physical Practices. Studies in Spirituality Supplements 26. Leuven: Peeters, 2016. David T. Bradford, The Spiritual Tradition in Eastern Christianity: Ascetic Psychology, Mystical Experience, and Physical Practices, Studies in Spirituality Supplements 26 (Leuven: Peeters, 2016).Isaac of NinevehNestoriansVII-XVIII CEVIII CEasceticismmysticismspiritualitytears