Parsons, Stuart E
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"Evagrius of Pontus was a rising early Christian theological star. He attended the Council of Constantinople in support of the Nicene party in 381 ce.
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In all likelihood, he assisted Gregory of Nazianzus with his celebrated theological orations on the Trinity (Or. 27-31). Although well educated and well regarded as a theologian, Evagrius abandoned his theological career in 383 ce and moved to the Egyptian desert to spend the rest of his life among mostly illiter ate monks.1 He combined his acute theological sensitivities with the rich spir itu al ity of the earliest Christian monastic communities in order to craft much of the intellectual foundation of Christian monastic theory. Evagrius shaped spirituality not only in the Christian East but also in the Christian West by way of John Cassian"--
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