The role of death in the 'Ladder of Ascent' and the Greek ascetic tradition:
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 earl...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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.0The 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 in the Ladder so that death and the judgment which follows defines a symbolic framework within which monks reflect on their past and approach the future. Climacus also took up metaphorical practices of dying to oneself and others to craft an idea of spiritual progress in the imitation of Christ taking into account failure and frailty. At the heart of this study is the abiding question of how tradition forms, and in the Ladder is an outstanding example of how unflinching fidelity to tradition results in a creative, synthetic achievement |
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Contents
Preface
vii
Abbreviations
xv
Introduction: Approaching the Ladder as a Text in Tradition
1
The Place of the Study
4
Tradition and the Individual Monk
18
The Shape of the Present Study
24
Conclusion: Locating the Ladder within Tradition
28
1.
John of Sinai and the Quest for Unity
29
The Ladder's Author, John of Sinai
29
The Quest for Unity
36
Running toward Death
50
2.
Biblical and Philosophical Foundations
52
The Biblical Vocabulary of Death
53
Philosophical Practices: Death and Remembrance
63
3.
The Life of Antony: Embracing Death on the Ascent to God
80
A Rule in Narrative
81
The New Man and the Old Enemy
85
The Continuity of Life and Death
91
Daily Dying
95
4.
The Desert Fathers: "Like a body whose soul has departed"
103
Imagining Death and Judgment
103
Living Beyond Death: Opposition of the Ages 111
Living in Death
122
Ambivalence
136
5.
The Great Old Men of Gaza: Learning to Die through Obedience
143
The Memory of Death as Judgment
145
The Mortal Self and the Limit of Death
153
Practicing Death in Gaza
162
Ambiguity and Crucifixion
175
6.
The Ladder of Divine Ascent: Death Makes the Christian
182
The Temporal and Iconic Framework of the Ascetic Life
183
The Ascetic Life as Death and Resurrection
207
Imitating Christ through Death
218
xiv Contents
Conclusion:
John Climacus' Achievement
224
lhe
Parts and the Whole
224
The Gift of Tradition
225
Bibliography
229
Index
249 |
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