St Isaac of Nineveh (7th c.), or Isaac the Syrian, is renowned for his Spiritual writings.
Isaac discloses the realities of prayer and Spiritual experience from their beginning to their most sublime heights and profound depths..
These were written above the lines in various places, seemingly as a commentary or expansion upon the Spiritual Homilies (the First Part ).
Inspired by Evagrius\' work by the same name, Isaac composed the Headings as four centuries-that is, four sets of one hundred sayings or headings-on the Spiritual life.
They appear here for the first time in a complete English translation.
This volume translates the first three Chapters of the Second Part, whose third chapter contains the Kephalaia Gnostika (or Headings on Spiritual Knowledge ).
Scholars recently rediscovered the Second Part of his corpus in 1983.
Yet many of Isaac\'s works were lost for centuries.
His Spiritual Homilies (homilies 1-6 in PPS 11) quickly became treasured throughout the Christian world, not only inspiring monastic and Spiritual life through the ages, but influencing culture more broadly, as in the works of Dostoevsky.
After only five months as bishop of Nineveh, he returned to a life of solitary stillness in the desert of modern-day Iran.
St Isaac of Nineveh (7th c.), or Isaac the Syrian, is renowned for his Spiritual writings
