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The __Ladder of Divine Ascent__, the work of an otherwise shadowy figure, John Climacus (meaning of the Ladder), abbot of St. Catherine's, Sinai (ca. 579-649 CE), is one of the most popular and enduring classics of Greek ascetic spiritual direction. Hailed as the great synthesis of early ascetic writings, the __Ladder__ presents a spirituality self-consciously rooted in the literary and theological tradition of the Desert Fathers and the Great Old Men of Gaza. Despite its incredible popularity among monastic and lay readers, the __Ladder__ is virtually unknown in scholarship. In this work, Jonathan L. Zecher offers a sustained study of the __Ladder's__ spiritual vision, which is contextualized within an equally sustained genealogical survey of Climacus' own tradition.The __Ladder__ is built up through the 'memory of death', a term referring to admonitions of early authors to remember one's inevitable but unknowable death and to contemplate the divine judgment which would follow to cultivate particular ascetic, Christian, lifestyles in their readers. In the literature that formed Climacus, every aspect of the 'memory of death' varied considerably, but Climacus draws these together i

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Author

Zecher, Jonathan L.

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191792458

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Religion, Philosophy