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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798982303321

Autore

Kavvadas Nestor

Titolo

Joseph Hazzaya on providence / / text, translation and introduction by Nestor Kavvadas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2016

©2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 pages)

Collana

Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity, , 2213-0039 ; ; Volume 8

Altri autori (Persone)

ḤazzāyāJausep

Disciplina

231/.5

Soggetti

Providence and government of God - Christianity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Joseph Hazzaya, On Providence.

Sommario/riassunto

The East Syriac mystic Joseph Hazzaya (8th century AD) wrote On Providence in an attempt to derive universal salvation ( apokatastasis ) from Theodore of Mopsuestia, the highest theological authority in the East Syriac Church, and thus to defend himself from heresy accusations coming from that Church’s Primate, Catholicos Timothy I, as Nestor Kavvadas draws out in the introduction to this first edition and translation of the treatise. At the same time, in On Providence Joseph Hazzaya reacts, by way of a remodelled Elijah-Apocalypse, to a rising wave of conversions to Islam that was to change the face of his homeland Mesopotamia as well as of the entire Middle East; thus, On Providence is a valuable addition to the scanty sources on that epochal change.