Eight Logismoi In The Writings Of Evagrius Ponticus

Download or read book Eight Logismoi in the Writings of Evagrius Ponticus written by Leszek Misiarczyk and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the teaching of Evagrius of Pontus (345-399) about eight passionate thoughts (logismoi), i.e. gluttony, impurity, avarice (greed), sadness, anger (wrath), acedia, vanity and pride. The study first reconstructs cosmology, eschatology, anthropology and spiritual teaching of the monk of Pontus in order to show the nature, dynamics and ways of combating against the eight passionate thoughts as proposed by Evagrius. His teaching in this regard became the basis for later Christian teaching on the Seven Deadly Sins and an inspiration in the future for some currents of modern psychology.