Evagrius Ponticus also called
Evagrius Ponticus (Ancient Greek: Εὐάγριος ὁ Ποντικός), also called Evagrius the Solitary (– AD), was a Christian monk and ascetic from Heraclea, a city on the coast of Bithynia in Asia Minor. A Brief Biography Evagrius grew Evagrius Ponticus (born , Ibora, Pontus—died , Cellia, Nitrian Desert, Egypt) was a Christian mystic and writer whose development of a theology of contemplative prayer and asceticism laid the groundwork for a tradition of spiritual life in both Eastern and Western churches.
5th century he wrote Born in Ibora, Pontus in or , Evagrius’ was raised in a family that was not only Christian, but clerical: his father was a chorbishop. [1].
With his Greek literary A Brief Biography. Evagrius grew up in the Pontus region of present-day Turkey, near the Black Sea, and obtained an impressive liberal arts education. He came under the influence of some of the greatest minds the Christian tradition has produced—namely, the principal formulators of the Nicene Creed as we know it today.
Evagrius wrote the KG largely Fleeing the temptations of an affair (according to Palladius), Evagrius traveled to Jerusalem, where he joined the monastic communities of Melania the Elder and Rufinus, taking monastic vows in He then went to Egypt, where toiled as one of the central figures of Egyptian monasticism.
In the third of Evagrius understands God as “the One,” that is, the ideal of all goodness, justice, and mercy, who forever contemplates himself. He alone is beyond all of time, being immutable, indivisible, and transcendent. His creation is, as far as it does not participate in him, rather subject to change and decay.
Evagrius Ponticus was a Edisi modern. A list of modern editions of Evagrius's writings in Greek and Syriac, as well as German translations, is contained in Julia Konstantinovsky, Evagrius Ponticus: The Making of a Gnostic, (Ashgate, ), pp. –8, and in Columba Stewart, Imageless Prayer and the Theological Vision of Evagrius Ponticus, Journal of Early Christian Studies , (), pp. –4.
Evagrius discusses matters foundational 17th century illumination featuring Evagrius Ponticus (left), John of Sinai, and someone else identity unknown. ポントスのエウァグリオス（Euagrios Pontikos、）は4世紀のキリスト教の理論家（教父）、エヴァグリオス・ポンティコス、エヴァグリウス・ポンティコス、エウアグリオス・ポンティコスとも表記される。.