John Climacus

By: Colm Luibheid

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Paperback | 1 January 1982

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"This series is a testimony to the Spirit breathing where He wills." America John Climacus: The Ladder of Divine Ascent edited and translated by Colm Luibheid and Norman Russell notes on translation by Norman Russell, preface by Kallistos Ware "Prayer is the mother and daughter of tears. It is an expiation of sin, a bridge across temptation, a bulwark against affliction. It wipes out conflict, is the work of angels, and is the nourishment of everything spiritual." John Climacus (c. 579-649) The Ladder of Divine Ascent was the most widely used handbook of the ascetic life in the ancient Greek Church. Popular among both lay and monastics, it was translated into Latin, Syriac, Arabic, Armenian, Old Slavonic, and many modern languages. It was written while the author (who received his surname from this book) was abbot of the monastery of Catherine on Mount Sinai. As reflected in the title, the ascetical life is portrayed as a ladder which each aspirant must ascend, each step being a virtue to be acquired, or a vice to be surrendered. Its thirty steps reflect the hidden life of Christ himself. This work had a fundamental influence in the particularly the Hesychastic, Jesus Prayer, or Prayer of the Heart movement. Pierre Pourrat in his History of Christian Spirituality calls John Climacus the "most important ascetical theologian of the East, at this epoch, who enjoyed a great reputation and exercised and important influence on future centuries." +

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Foreword	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. x
Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
On Renunciation of Life	p. 73
On Detachment	p. 81
On Exile	p. 85
On Obedience	p. 91
On Penitence	p. 121
On Remembrance of Death	p. 132
On Mourning	p. 136
On Placidity and Meekness	p. 146
On Malice	p. 152
On Slander	p. 155
On Talkativeness and Silence	p. 158
On Falsehood	p. 160
On Despondency	p. 162
On Gluttony	p. 165
On Chastity	p. 171
On Avarice	p. 187
On Poverty	p. 189
On Insensitivity	p. 191
On Sleep, Prayer and the Singing in Church of Psalms	p. 194
On Alertness	p. 196
On Unmanly Fears	p. 199
On Vainglory	p. 201
On Pride	p. 207
On Meekness, Simplicity, Guilelessness, and Wickedness	p. 214
On Humility	p. 218
On Discernment	p. 229
A Brief Summary of All the Preceding Steps	p. 256
On Stillness	p. 261
On Prayer	p. 274
On Dispassion	p. 282
On Faith, Hope, and Love	p. 286
A Brief Summary and Exhortation	p. 291
Index to the Preface and Introduction	p. 293
Index to the Text	p. 296
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