TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ḥazzāyā,Jausep
AU  - Kavvadas,Nestor Chr
TI  - Joseph Hazzaya On providence /text, translation and introduction by Nestor Kavvadas
T2  - Texts and studies in Eastern Christianity
SN  - 9004330003
AV  - BT135 .J674 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Ḥazzāyā, Jausep --
KW  - Providence and government of God
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - The East Syriac mystic Joseph Hazzaya (8th century AD) wrote On Providence in an attempt to derive universal salvation ( apokatastasis ) from Theodore of Mopsuestia, the highest theological authority in the East Syriac Church, and thus to defend himself from heresy accusations coming from that Church's Primate, Catholicos Timothy I, as Nestor Kavvadas draws out in the introduction to this first edition and translation of the treatise. At the same time, in On Providence Joseph Hazzaya reacts, by way of a remodelled Elijah-Apocalypse, to a rising wave of conversions to Islam that was to change the face of his homeland Mesopotamia as well as of the entire Middle East; thus, On Providence is a valuable addition to the scanty sources on that epochal change
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