Dreams in Evagrius Ponticus' Life and teaching

There are few late antiquity authors who pay more attention than Evagrius todreams. For him, visions and dreams are not a way to prophesy the future or tokeep in contact with the dead. They are basically a way to know oneself and thestate of ones own spiritual life. After contextualizing the theorie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Peretó Rivas, Rubén Angel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/80571
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/80571
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:EVAGRIO PÓNTICO
SUEÑOS
PSICOLOGÍA
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.3
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6
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Sumario:There are few late antiquity authors who pay more attention than Evagrius todreams. For him, visions and dreams are not a way to prophesy the future or tokeep in contact with the dead. They are basically a way to know oneself and thestate of ones own spiritual life. After contextualizing the theories on dreams in themost significant authors of that period, I discuss the place that visions and dreamsoccupied in the Evagrian corpus, describing their mechanisms as a complex operationbetween passions, memory and the influence of demons.