2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Cappadocian Father and Bishop of Nyssa — brother of Basil of Caesarea — who developed the most philosophically sophisticated Christian mystical theology of the patristic era, arguing that the soul's ascent to God is an infinite progression (epektasis) rather than a final static union.
7th century Syriac mystic and bishop who briefly served as Bishop of Nineveh before resigning to live as a hermit — whose writings on stillness, prayer, inner warfare, and divine love became the most read mystical texts in Eastern Orthodox spirituality.