Niketas Stethatos

Nicetas Stethatos (Greek: Νικήτας Στηθᾶτος, Latin: Nicetas Pectoratus, about 1000-1090 ) was a Byzantine mystic and theologian who is revered by the Greek Orthodox Church as a saint.

Hesychastischer dispute

Nicetas was an ascetic or a monk at the monastery in Constantinople Opel Studio (today's Istanbul). Around the year 1020 he teamed up with his spiritual mentor, Symeon, together and became his apologist, Symeon defensively when it was attacked for his defense of the system of contemplative prayer, Hesychasm. In written by Nicetas biography of Simeon that a braided his own perspective on the inner experience of enlightenment. He also wrote a treatise and several comments about ascetic practices that are included in the fourth volume of the English edition of the Philokalia.

Polemicist

Nicetas took part in several theological debates, especially in view of the dispute between Western and Eastern Church, under which he wrote five books against the Armenians and two books against the Latins. In these he criticized, among other things, the use of unleavened bread, the Sabbath fasting, and the celibacy of priests. During the tenure Abbot Simeon in 1054 he fought with the papal legate, Cardinal Humbert of Silva Candida, recanted in the presence of the emperor and the papal legate, and burned his writing.

Swell

• Encyclopedia Britannica Article:
• Lauritzen, F., The debate on Faith and Reason, Yearbook of the Austrian Byzantine Studies 57, 2007, 75-82

• Byzantine theologian
• Orthodox Theologian (11th century)
• Author
• Christian literature
• Saints ( 11th century )
• Born in the 10th or 11th century
• Died in the 11th century
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