Evagrius Ponticus

Biography

Born around 345 in Ibora in Pontus, he was particularly influenced by Gregory of Nazianzus in philosophical and theological disciplines. After a temporary stay in Constantinople where he had followed Gregory of Nazianzus in 380, and another in Jerusalem with Melania the Elder and Rufinus, he retired permanently to Egypt around 383, first to Nitria, then to the nearby desert of the Cells (Kellia), until about 390. There he met Macarius († 394), the initiator of monastic life in the desert of Scetis (Wadi Natroun). With the Desert Fathers, he acquired the practical wisdom that was transmitted among the monks and of which the Apophthegmata preserve a vivid witness. Because of his links with the Origenist monks and certain aspects of his thinking, especially in the field of Christology, he was condemned by the Council of Constantinople of 553 along with Origen and Didymus the Blind. As a result, only part of his work in Greek has survived (mainly ascetical treatises), and often under other names, the rest having survived in Syriac, Armenian or Georgian.

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Evagrius the Pontic (?) (346 ? - 399 ?)
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Evagrius Ponticus
Birth date ? (Ibora)

Dans la région du Pont, près de la rivière de l'Iris

Death date

En Egypte ?

Activity Ibora, Pont
Group of authors Alexandria