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Article: The Spiritual World of Isaac the Syrian
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- Anglican Theological Review
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- October 1, 2001
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The Spiritual World of Isaac the Syrian. By Hilarion Alfeyev. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian Publications, 2000. 321 pp. $20.95 (paper).
"Because of the goodness of [God's
] nature by which he brought the universe into being and then bears, guides, and provides for the worlds and all created things in his immeasurable compassion, he has devised the establishment of the kingdom of heaven for the entire community of rational beings" (p. 294). This is the belief of a seventh-century Syrian monk, Saint Isaac of Nineveh, also known as Isaac the Syrian. Our age is so captivated by the cult of the new that we all too often ignore the old-in religious terms, the works that make up and undergird the ...