Separation, Loss, Confinement, and Change: How Evagrius Can Speak to the Experience of Lockdown

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dc.contributor.authorTobon, Monica
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-14T08:03:13Z
dc.date.available2023-02-14T08:03:13Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractSeparation, loss, confinement, and change have been imposed on entire populations during the Covid-19 pandemic in the form of lockdowns aimed at limiting the spread of the virus. They are also central to Evagrian asceticism, where they establish the conditions for the change at which the monastic life aims, namely to begin to reverse the effects of the fall by restoring the soul to health. This paper examines how they do so in order to gain an understanding of their ascetic function. Following the Introduction, it outlines Evagrius’ anthropology in order to lay the groundwork for its main theme, the healing of pathos through the practical life. Separation, loss, and confinement are each considered in turn by referencing Evagrius’ descriptions of their ascetic function and his own experience of them. Next, the change at which they aim is described, again drawing upon a range of Evagrian material. The final section of the paper considers how Evagrius can speak to the experience of lockdown by endowing separation, loss, confinement with meaning and purpose in relation to spiritual awakening and growth, highlighting our freedom to choose our attitude to them, and acting as both our guide and our companion.pl
dc.identifier.citation"Vox Patrum", 2022, T. 82, s. 89-112pl
dc.identifier.doi10.31743/vp.13460
dc.identifier.issn0860-9411
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/4280
dc.language.isoenpl
dc.publisherWydawnictwo KULpl
dc.rightsUznanie autorstwa-Użycie niekomercyjne-Bez utworów zależnych 3.0 Polska*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/pl/*
dc.subjectEvagriuspl
dc.subjectseparationpl
dc.subjectlosspl
dc.subjectconfinementpl
dc.subjectapatheiapl
dc.subjectlockdownpl
dc.subjectfreedompl
dc.subjectlogismoipl
dc.subjectPlatopl
dc.subjectEpictetuspl
dc.subjectchangepl
dc.subjectascetismpl
dc.subjectspiritual growthpl
dc.subjecttransformationpl
dc.subjectnouspl
dc.subjectold selfpl
dc.subjectnew selfpl
dc.subjectpathospl
dc.subjectpathepl
dc.subjectFranklpl
dc.titleSeparation, Loss, Confinement, and Change: How Evagrius Can Speak to the Experience of Lockdownpl
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlepl
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Vox Patrum, 2022, Vol. 82: The Passions in the Platonic Tradition, Patristics and Late Antiquity