Fifth-century bishop and spiritual theologian; his 'One Hundred Gnostic Chapters' (Capita gnostica) is among the most important early texts on the practice of interior prayer, spiritual discernment, and the deifying experience of divine light; a foundational text of the Eastern Christian contemplative tradition.
His emphasis on the awareness of grace, spiritual sobriety (nepsis), sensory perception of divine love, and the prayer of the heart laid essential groundwork for the hesychast tradition later systematized by Gregory Palamas; the Philokalia anthology includes his Chapters as a central text shaping all subsequent Eastern Orthodox spirituality.
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