Impassibilitas et impeccantia : Jerome’s misunderstanding of impassibility and sinlessness in Evagrius Ponticus

Misiarczyk, Leszek (author)

Jerome understood impassibility like Stoics as a complete lack of any emotion or desire. He mistakenly identified impassibility with impeccantia accusing Evagrius of making man a cold stone or a sinless God. Evagrius, however, did not identify impassibility with the state of modern apathy or insensitivity or as a lack of desires and impulses, but as a liberation from the passionate thoughts: gluttony, impurity, avarice, sadness, wrath, and acedia. Jerome did not read Evagrian texts in original Greek and had second-hand information about his teaching, so he misunderstood his concept of impassibilitas et impeccantia.

• Language: English
• Keywords: sin, Stoicism, emotions, apatheia
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: TEOF - Theological Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2021
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: Str. 271-281
• Numbering: Letn. 81, [št.] 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-163908
• UDC: 27-36-1sv.Hieronim
• ISSN on article: 0006-5722
• DOI: 10.34291/BV2021/02/Misiarczyk
• COBISS.SI-ID: 87418883
• Publication date in RUL: 14.10.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Bogoslovni vestnik
• Shortened title: Bogosl. vestn.
• Publisher: Bogoslovna akademija, Bogoslovna akademija, Teološka fakulteta v Ljubljani, Teološka fakulteta Univerze v Ljubljani, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 0006-5722
• COBISS.SI-ID: 8745472

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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Impassibilitas et impeccantia : Hieronimovo napačno razumevanje brezstrastnosti in brezgrešnosti pri Evagriju Pontskem

Abstract

Hieronimovo razumevanje brezstrastnosti (impassibilitas) sledi stoiškemu, to pomeni: odsotnost čustev ali želja. Brezstrastnost je zmotno enačil z brezgrešnostjo (impeccantia), pri tem pa je Evagrija obtožil poskusa, da želi iz človeka narediti brezsrčen kamen ali za brezgrešnega Boga. Evagrij brezstrastnosti namreč ni razumel v smislu sodobnega pojma apatije ali brezčutnosti, pa tudi ne v smislu umanjkanja želja in dražljajev, marveč kot osvoboditev od strastnih misli: požrešnost, nečistost, pohlep, žalost, jeza in akedija. Hieronim ni bral Evagrijevih besedil v izvirni grščini, ampak je imel o njih zgolj informacije iz druge roke, zaradi česar je napačno razumel pojma brezstrastnosti in brezgrešnosti.

• Keywords: greh, stoicizem, čustva, apatija