4th Century |
Aphrahat (in Persia) |
Constantine |
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Ephrem (d. 373) |
Basil, Gregorys, Athanasius |
Hilary |
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"Book of Steps" |
Evagrius (d. 399) |
Ambrose |
5th Century |
John of Apamea/the Solitary |
John Chrysostom |
Augustine |
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Egyptian Monastic Literature |
Cassian |
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431 Council of Ephesus; 451 Council of Chalcedon
3–way split: Syrian Orthodox (miaphysite),
Greek Orthodox, Catholic, etc (Chalcedonian diophysite),
Church of the East (strict dyophysite)
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5th/6th Century |
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Abba Isaiah |
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Jacob of Serugh (d. 521) |
Sayings of the Desert Fathers |
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Philoxenus (d. 523) |
Ps. Dionysius the Areopagite |
Boethius |
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'Hierotheos' |
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Sergius of Resh'aina (d. 536) |
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Gregory the Great |
7th Century |
Martyrius/Sahdona |
John of Sinai |
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630s: Arab conquests,
cutting off the Middle East
from the Byzantine Empire
8th Century
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Isaac of Nineveh (the Syrian) |
Maximus the Confessor |
Bede |
Dadisho' |
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Simeon of the Book of Grace |
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John of Dalyatha (the Elder) |
John of Damascus |
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Joseph the Seer |
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