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The Ladder of Divine Ascent by John Climacus (Author); Archimandrite Lazarus Moore (Transl.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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 by John Climacus in ca. 600 AD at the request of John, Abbot of Raithu, a monastery located on the shores of the Red Sea. 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."
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- Author
- John Climacus (Author); Archimandrite Lazarus Moore (Transl.)
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Published
- 1959
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Rating
- 4.8 / 5 (479 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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