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Jul 1, 2020 · Saint Ephraim the Syrian is fascinating due to his existence outside the periphery of the “Christian world” most of us think of. Though he lived in the Roman Empire (he writes hymns against the Emperor Julian the Apostate), his writing is Syriac and decidedly Old Testament in its focus. He apparently wrote amidst Jews whose religion was ...
Dec 2, 2020 · Nonetheless, Ephrem tends to a Bibically literalist position and preserves for us fourth century Syrian thought. In this article, we offer highlights that give us insight how Ephrem understood Theosis, the salvation of the unborn, the Fall, and even the authenticity of his commentary on Genesis. The Difference Between Heaven and Hell.
Aug 1, 2022 · Sebastian Brock’s publications have spanned the entirety of Syriac literary history, but he has displayed an especial fondness for Ephrem the Syrian, the fourth-century northern Mesopotamian poet who is the Syriac tradition’s first “great” poet, and perhaps the most well known of Syriac authors. Brock’s work on Ephrem has been particularly concerned to interpret Ephrem generously and ...
- Introduction
- Poetry, Theology, and The Heresy of Paraphrase
- Poetic Contemplation of Nature and Language
- Implications and Concluding Thoughts
Asked to reflect on the relationship between poetry and theology, I always reach for the above lines of Ephrem the Syrian’s. In some respects, all my thoughts on this matter are circular, starting from and returning to the 31st of Ephrem’s Hymns (or Teaching Songs) on the Faith, of which the above words are the refrain. The core affirmation of the ...
While it would be unwise to aim to define poetry, certainly for the purposes of this essay, it should be unproblematic to stress that a poem is a linguistic artefact that generates meaning through the indivisibility of form and content, meter and matter, intention and expression. Hence the so-called ‘heresy of paraphrase’, initially articulated by ...
The object of theology is not simply God in himself, but also the theological fabric of existence, the created as participating in the uncreated, God as manifested in the world. We are here in the realm of what is often called natural contemplation of the divine. Drawing on strands of theology from Gregory Palamas and Maximos the Confessor, Louth w...
“A poem must not be about an event,” says the contemporary Orthodox poet Scott Cairns; “it must occasion an event of its own”.[xviii] It is in seeing poems like “Hamlen Brook” as events and things in their own right that we may also discern their theological and theophanic potentials. This is key to an understanding of ‘sacred’ art or poetry in gen...
Singer of the Word of God: Ephrem the Syrian and his Significance in Late Antiquity. By Sebastian P. Brock. Sebastianyotho 1. Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias, 2020. x + 380 pp. $179.00 cloth. - Volume 90 Issue 3
Jan 15, 2024 · This crucial and far-reaching transformation is instantiated in the work of Ephrem the Syrian (d. 373 CE), who made a case for the fundamental coherence of his poetry with Scripture. Handout: A downloadable handout is available at the end of this webpage. Speaker: Professor Alberto Rigolio, Associate Professor in Classics, Durham University, UK.
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Sep 15, 2011 · As Sebastian Brock has affirmed, ‘these [Jewish traditions] will have reached Ephrem indirectly, and perhaps by way of oral tradition, for there is absolutely no evidence that he drew directly on Jewish literary sources in either Aramaic or Hebrew’ (Sebastian Brock, The Luminous Eye: The Spiritual World Vision of St. Ephrem the Syrian [Placid Lectures, 6; Rome: Center for Indian and Inter ...
