Robert Sinkewicz takes this Evagrian revival a major step forward, particularly for English speakers, with this translation of and commentary on Evagrius's ascetic works that survive in Greek, i.e., The Foundations of the Monastic Life: A Presentation of the Practice of Stillness To Eulogios: On the Confession of Thoughts and Counsel in their Regard On the Vices Opposed to the Virtues, On the Eight Thoughts The Monk: A Treatise on the Practical Life ( Praktikos) To Monks in Monasteries and Communities and Exhortation to a Virgin On Thoughts Chapters on Prayer Reflections Exhortations 1-2 to Monks Thirty-Three Ordered Chapters and Maxims 1-3. They and others produced studies of Evagrius's thought that established his central position in early monastic spirituality and his influence on subsequent authors despite his condemnation in 553. Wilhelm Frankenberg, Irénée Hausherr, Joseph Muyldermans, Antoine and Clarie Guillaumont, Gabriel Bunge, and Paul Géhin restored to Evagrius works that had been attributed to other authors, uncovered and published the unexpurgated version of the Kephalaia Gnôstika, and edited and translated texts that survive in Greek and Syriac. 345-399), arguably late antiquity's greatest theorist of the monastic life. One of the great achievements of twentieth-century scholarship in patristics and monasticism was the recovery (still in progress) of the works of Evagrius Ponticus (ca.
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