The Wisdom of Saint Isaac the Syrian

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Sebastian Brock

ISBN: 978-0-7283-0145-0

LENGTH: 20 pages

Fairacres Publications 128

1997 7/2018

A selection of short sayings from St Isaac the Syrian, a seventh-century master of the ascetic life, each holding a spiritual truth.

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In recent decades there has been a notable renewal of interest in St Isaac the Syrian, a seventh-century master of the ascetic life. This selection of short sayings is part of Dr Brock’s work on a fuller, long-neglected manuscript which he is making available to English readers. Each sentence holds the mind steadily in the light of a truth about the spiritual life. St Isaac’s vivid images drawn directly from nature, husbandry and general human experience speak for themselves and draw us to penitence and prayer.

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ISBN

978-0-7283-0145-0
Length

20 pages
Author

Sebastian Brock
ISSN

0307-1405
Book Size

140 x 210 mm

Author Bio

Sebastian Brock was born in 1938 and is generally acknowledged as the foremost and most influential academic in the field of Syriac language today. He is a former Reader in Syriac Studies at the Oriental Institute of the University of Oxford and emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. He has published over 600 articles and books, including thirty about St Isaac. Among his publications are The Syriac Fathers on Prayer and the Spiritual Life (Cistercian Publications, 1987), Isaac of Nineveh (Isaac the Syrian): ‘The Second Part’, Chapters IV–XLI (Peeters, 1995) and Isaac of Nineveh: Headings on Spiritual Knowledge (St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2022).

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