Vice and Self-examination in the Christian Desert: An Intellectual Historical Reading of Evagrius Ponticus

This thesis offers an analysis of the vice tradition of the fourth-century monk Evagrius Ponticus. While Evagrius, like others before him, understands that virtue and vice have an affective component, and that these affections are reactions to mental images, for Evagrius these images are veridically...

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Main Author: Gibbons, Kathleen
Other Authors: Sinkewicz, Robert
Language:en_ca
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/42494