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Cover 14 Contents 14 Preface 8 Abbreviations 16 Introduction: Approaching the Ladder as a Text in Tradition 22 The Place of the Study 25 Tradition and the Individual Monk 39 The Shape of the Present Study 45 Conclusion: Locating the Ladder within Tradition 49 1. John of Sinai and the Quest for Unity 50 The Ladder’s Author, John of Sinai 50 The Quest for Unity 57 Running toward Death 71 2. Biblical and Philosophical Foundations 73 The Biblical Vocabulary of Death 74 Philosophical Practices: Death and Remembrance 84 3. The Life of Antony: Embracing Death on the Ascent to God 101 A Rule in Narrative 102 The New Man and the Old Enemy 106 The Continuity of Life and Death 112 Daily Dying 116 4. The Desert Fathers: “Like a body whose soul has departed” 124 Imagining Death and Judgment 124 Living Beyond Death: Opposition of the Ages 132 Living in Death 143 Ambivalence 157 5. The Great Old Men of Gaza: Learning to Die through Obedience 164 The Memory of Death as Judgment 166 The Mortal Self and the Limit of Death 174 Practicing Death in Gaza 183 Ambiguity and Crucifixion 196 6. The Ladder of Divine Ascent: Death Makes the Christian 203 The Temporal and Iconic Framework of the Ascetic Life

Author

Zecher, Jonathan L.;

Published

2015

Language

EN