Contemplation is central to the spirituality of Evagrius Ponticus since it is the means by which the fallen nous progressively recovers the knowledge of God in which, as his image, it was first created and which is its ‘ultimate blessedness’. Recent scholarship has begun to reveal the extraordinary richness of Evagrius’ understanding of contemplation and the aim of this workshop is to further that process.
David Brakke (USA): “Mystery, Secrecy, and the Ladder to Contemplation of the Trinity”
Kevin Corrigan (USA): “Suffocation or germination: infinity, formation and calibration of the mind in Evagrius’ notion of contemplation”
Robin Darling Young (USA): ‘Transmission and Translation in the Letters of Evagrius of Pontus – some issues relating to contemplation’
Luke Dysinger (USA): An Exegetical Way of Seeing: Contemplation and Spiritual Guidance in Evagrius Ponticus”
Julia Konstantinovsky (UK): Evagrius Ponticus: contemplation as infinite creation
Convener: Monica Tobon (UK): Enlarging the Heart and Lifting It Up: Contemplation as Transformation in Evagrius Ponticus. Abstract: For Evagrius, both physical and psychological transformation are integral to spiritual transformation. A human being is essentially a nous that, as image of the Triune God, is itself triune, the anthropological triad of spirit, soul and body and the psychological triad of logistikon, thumos and epithumêtikon being its fragmented post-lapsarian forms. All three parts of the soul are, accordingly, in some sense nous, such that corporeality is a matter of degree and the physical body’s constitution a function of spiritual condition and therefore mutable. Contemplation is the means by which, in a process that is both ascent and reunification, the soul and physical body are ‘raised to the order of the mind’ as the fragmented imago Dei is healed and the spiritual body emerges from the ‘triple resurrection’ of body, soul and spirit.
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