Talking Back
A Monastic Handbook for Combating Demons
How did the monks of the Egyptian desert fight against the demons that attacked them with tempting thoughts? How could Christians resist the thoughts of gluttony, fornication, or pride that assailed them and obstructed their contemplation of God? According to Evagrius of Pontus (345 '399), one of the greatest spiritual directors of ancient monasticism, the monk should talk back to demons with relevant passages from the Bible. His book Talking Back (Antirrhaªtikos) lists over 500 thoughts or circumstances in which the demon-fighting monk might find himself, along with the biblical passages with which the monk should respond. It became one of t…
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Weitere Autoren: Brakke, David (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-87907-968-0
- EAN: 9780879079680
- Produktnummer: 21734830
- Verlag: Liturgical Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 200 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'837 KB
- Reihenbandnummer: 229
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