
Między Platonem a Plotynem. Wątki erotyczne w Dziejach miłości Bożej Teodoreta z Cyru = Between Plato and Plotinus. Erotic motifs in the Religious History of Theodoret of Cyrrhus
Author(s) -
Wojciech Nadobnik
Publication year - 2020
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2080-8097
DOI - 10.36389/uw.uss.18-19.1.3
Subject(s) - contemplation , terminology , depiction , monasticism , philosophy , subject (documents) , object (grammar) , argument (complex analysis) , order (exchange) , literature , phenomenon , neoplatonism , theology , epistemology , art , linguistics , finance , library science , computer science , economics , biochemistry , chemistry
In the article, the author examines the importance of erotic terminology for the depiction of the relationship between monk and God in the hagiographical Religious History of Theodoret, bishop of Cyrrhus. He tries to prove that Theodoret made a conscious use of philosophical concepts of Eros in order to make the phenomenon of Syriac monasticism more intelligible for the contemporary pagan intellectuals. In the argument, the author first discusses Theodoret’s knowledge of Plato’s Symposium and Phaedrus, and the Enneads of Plotinus. Secondly, he examines the possible use Theodoret makes of those texts in the six topics where the erotic terminology appears (object and subject of love, contemplation, ascetism, contrition, community).