THE SAPPHIRE LIGHT OF THE MIND: THE SKEMMATA OF EVAGRIUS PONTICUS.

Theological Studies | September 1, 2001| | Copyright

ONE TENDS TO THINK of "theology" today as something one studies, something read in a book or examined in a classroom.(1) Theology is an academic enterprise, scholastic in the literal sense of the word. One of the pioneers of Christian mysticism, Evagrius Ponticus (ca. 345-399), had a quite different view. According to Evagrius, theology is a knowledge of God gained from first-hand experience. It comes not from books, but from prayer. Evagrius did not doubt the value of reading, of study, of reason; nor did he doubt the profound value of dogma, of liturgy, or of ecclesiastical ...

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