Evagrius on the True Theologian

🙏 Evagrius was born around 345 in the Iberian fortress of Pontus, being the son of the local bishop.
⛪ He was ordained a reader by Saint Basil the Great and a deacon by Saint Gregory the Theologian.
✝ He died in 399, at the age of 54, after more than 15 years of hardship. pic.twitter.com/ZhG7fiAKC2

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Perhaps Too Intellectualist?

"Prayer is the energy which accords with the dignity of the intellect; it is the intellect's true and highest activity."

(Evagrios the Solitary, On Prayer, 84) pic.twitter.com/F1xwbCePGM

— Akenside Institute for English Spirituality (@EngSpirituality) January 20, 2021

The Source of the Tweet May be Probelmatic

But the thesis on"Western Church history" is interesting. Is St. Augustine the primary Latin source for its "ontology of Holy Orders"? And is Latin "theology of the priesthood" based upon St. Augustine solely, or are there other Latin fathers who are sources for it?

Cassian bought the mystical theology of the Egyptian Desert as described by Evagrius of Pontus to southern France. He adapted this desert mysticism to appeal to Latin Europeans. Reforming old monasteries and building new ones. Thus beginning the Gothic revolution. pic.twitter.com/oURBEgWWGs

— OZAbbey (@9AbbeyOZ) December 19, 2020

Cassian's master was Evagrius of Pontus d399CE. Over 15 years Evagrius had interviewed & documented the greatest of the Egyptian-desert mystics. He was meticulous & thorough. A brilliant psychologist. He cataloged 9 Logosmoi, which became Cassian's 8 passions & Gregory's 7 vices. pic.twitter.com/wIMQ8EHrI3

— OZAbbey (@9AbbeyOZ) December 19, 2020

Related:

John Cassian and Augustine on Peter and on the pope via /r/Christianity https://t.co/bLf6gJXSqX

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A New Book from Fr. Gabriel Bunge

in English translation that is... Spiritual Fatherhood: Evagrius Ponticus on the Role of the Spiritual Father

Eastern Christian Books: LOGOS: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies Fall 2015

Eastern Christian Books: LOGOS: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies Fall 2015

"Finally, Augustine Casiday, author of the invaluable landmark work Reconstructing the Theology of Evagrius Ponticus: Beyond Heresy (whom I interviewed about this very book here) has a fascinating and learned essay treating the uses and abuses of Evagrius' famous definition of theology and a theologian from his treatise On Prayer. This maxim, which I have myself quoted regularly, and which seems to be a staple of contemporary Eastern spiritual and apologetical literature, is often used as little more than a thinly disguised sneer at intellectual work--as a cloak for anti-intellectual obscurantism in other words. Casiday's treatment of what Evagrius really meant is important and not to be missed."

The Contribution by Benedictines to the Rehabilitation of Evagrius Ponticus

Augustine Casiday, "Gabriel Bunge and the Study of Evagrius Ponticus"