Euagrios Ponticos

Euagrios Pontikos (representation from Kaffa , around 1430)

Euagrios Pontikos ( Latinized Evagrius Ponticus ; * 345 in Ibora , Pontos , † 399 in Egypt) was a Christian monk (" desert father "), ascetic and writer.

Life

Euagrios - pupil of Gregory of Nazianzen - lived with the monks in the Nitrian desert. He was ordained a deacon in Constantinople . As a follower of Origen he was posthumously condemned several times, for example in 553 at the second council of Constantinople . Euagrios played a major role in the outbreak of the Origenist disputes among the monks in the Egyptian desert at the end of the 4th century as the leader of the educated Origenist monks who were expelled by Bishop Theophilos of Alexandria after the death of Euagrios and received by John Chrysostom in Constantinople found.

reception

Euagrios is the founder of the eight load doctrine (see Mortal Sin ), which was adopted and further developed by Johannes Cassianus around the year 420, and acquired a high reputation among the anarchists through his literary work and his scientific education . Little of the work of Euagrios Pontikos has survived today. The majority of the writings have come down to us in pseudo- epigraphic form, for example from Neilos von Ankyra . The scriptures are Bible commentaries based on Alexandrian exegesis and ascetic scriptures. Since many of his works were translated into other languages ​​of the Christian Orient early on, Euagrios became a mediator of monastic spirituality in the Orient and Occident.

Works

• Ad monachos
  • U .: Words to the monks. Words to a virgin. Sententiae ad monachos. Sententiae ad virginem. Introduced and translated by W. Eisele. Münsterschwarzach 2012, pp. 49-70
  • Tr .: The monk's mirror. The nun mirror. Admonition to monks. Greek and German. Introduced and translated by Christoph Joest. Herder: Freiburg im Breisgau, 2012, ISBN 978-3-451-30956-4
• Ad virginem
  • U .: Words to the monks. Words to a virgin. Sententiae ad monachos. Sententiae ad virginem. Introduced and translated by W. Eisele. Münsterschwarzach 2012, pp. 49-70
  • Tr .: The monk's mirror. The nun mirror. Admonition to monks. Greek and German. Introduced and translated by Christoph Joest. Herder: Freiburg im Breisgau, 2012, ISBN 978-3-451-30956-4
• Antirrheticus
  • Tr .: The big contradiction. Translated by L. Trunk. Münsterschwarzach, 2010
• Centuriarum supplementum
• De diversis malignis cogitationibus
• De magistris et discipulis
• De octo spiritibus malitiae tractatus
  • Ex .: About the eight thoughts. Introduced and translated by G. Bunge. Würzburg, 1992
• De oratione
  • Tr .: About prayer. Introduced and translated by JE Bamberger. Münsterschwarzach, 2011
• De vitiis quae opposita sunt virtutibus
• Epistula ad Melaniam
  • T .: letter to Melania; in: Letters from the desert. Introduced, translated and commented by G. Bunge. Trier, 1986, pp. 303-328
• Epistulae
  • Tr .: Letters from the desert. Introduced, translated and commented by G. Bunge. Trier, 1986
• Epistula fidei
  • T .: Epistula 63; in: Letters from the desert. Introduced, translated and commented by G. Bunge. Trier, 1986, pp. 284-302
• Gnosticus
• Institutio ad Monachos
  • Tr .: The monk's mirror. The nun mirror. Admonition to monks. Greek and German. Introduced and translated by Christoph Joest. Herder: Freiburg im Breisgau, 2012, ISBN 978-3-451-30956-4
• Kephalaia gnostica
• Internships
  • Ex .: Praktikos or The Monk. A hundred chapters on the spiritual life. Translated by G. Bunge. Cologne, 1989
  • Ex .: internships. About prayer. Translated and introduced by JE Bamberger. Münsterschwarzach, 1986, pp. 34-77
• Scholia in Ecclesiastem
• Scholia in Proverbia
• Scholia in Psalmos
• Skemmas

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Evagrius Ponticus. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 1575-1576.
• David Brakke: Making Public the Monastic Life: Reading the Self in Evagrius Ponticus' Talking Back. In: David Brakke, Michael L. Satlow, Steven Weitzman (Eds.): Religion and the Self in Antiquity. Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis 2005, ISBN 0-253-21796-2 , pp. 222-233.
• Gabriel Bunge: Gastrimargia. The knowledge and teaching of the desert fathers about eating and fasting, presented using the writings of Evagrios Pontikos . Lit, Berlin, 2nd, through. 2015 edition, ISBN 978-3-643-13068-6 .
• Augustine Casiday (Ed.): Evagrius Ponticus. Routledge, Abingdon 2006, ISBN 0-415-32446-7 .
• Paul Géhin: Évagre le Pontique. In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques. Volume 3, CNRS Éditions, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-271-05748-5 , pp. 399-402
• Alexios G. Savvides, Benjamin Hendrickx (Eds.): Encyclopaedic Prosopographical Lexicon of Byzantine History and Civilization. Volume 2: Baanes – Eznik of Kolb. Brepols Publishers, Turnhout 2008, ISBN 978-2-503-52377-4 , pp. 452-453.
• Robert E. Sinkewicz (translator, commentator and introduction): Evagrius of Pontus - The Greek Ascetic Corpus. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2006, ISBN 978-0-19-929708-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Euagrios Pontikos in the catalog of the German National Library
• Texts in Greek and English
• Opera Omnia from Migne, Patrologia Graeca