By Augustine Casiday
Evagrius Ponticus is seemed through many students because the architect of the jap heresy Origenism, as his theology corresponded to the debates that erupted in 399 and episodically thereafter, culminating within the moment Council of Constantinople in 553 advert. in spite of the fact that a few students now query this traditional interpretation of Evagrius' position within the Origenist controversies. Augustine Casiday units out to reconstruct Evagrius' theology in its personal phrases, liberating interpretation of his paintings from the popularity for heresy that crushed it, and learning his lifestyles, writings and evolving legacy intimately. the 1st a part of this e-book discusses the transmission of Evagrius' writings, and gives a framework of his existence for knowing his writing and theology, while half strikes to an artificial research of significant topics that emerge from his writings. This publication can be a useful addition to scholarship on Christian theology, patristics, heresy and historic philosophy.
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See further A. Gudemann, ‘Scholien’, in G. , Paulys Real-Encyclopädie (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1923), 2. a, 625–705. See the fragments of Clement’s Hypotyposeis (GCS-Clemens Alexandrinus III. Band: 195– 202); scholia were part of Origen’s exegetical repertory as well. H. U. von Balthasar, ‘Die Hiera des Evagrius’, Zeitschrift für Katholische Theologie 63 (1939): 86–106, 181–206. The scholia on Proverbs and on Ecclesiastes have subsequently been edited by Paul Géhin and published as SC 340 and 397, respectively.
13 We will consider one such theologically significant passage from On Thoughts in Chapter 7, below. 3 Scholia Evagrius’ scholia (or ‘annotations’), like his kephalaia (or ‘chapters’ – about which, more anon), constitute a genre that will not necessarily be familiar, so a brief description is appropriate in both cases. A scholion is first and foremost an explanation of a difficult passage that is typically written in the margin or at the foot of the text in question. The range of topics treated in scholia is broad; amongst other things, scholia may redress perceived inconsistencies in the text or the corpus, gloss unfamiliar terms or unusual grammatical features, illuminate obscure historical or geographical references.
36 Evagrius Ponticus in ecclesiastical history In the oriental traditions, several documents that exposit, interpret or even mimic the Scriptures are ascribed to Evagrius. We might note ‘On the Seraphim’ in Syriac and Armenian, ‘On the Cherubim’ in Syriac, ‘On the Lord’s Prayer’ in Bohairic Coptic and three particularly curious opuscula written in the style of the Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes and Proverbs that survive in Arabic (CPG 2459–2461, 2463–2464a, respectively). With the exception of Ad imitationem Cantici canticorum, however, there is no known evidence for these works in the Greek and it is best to treat them cautiously.