The Book of Steps: The Syriac Liber Graduum Volume 196

Intentionally anonymous and lacking concrete details of historical and cultural setting—and for many years suspected of messalianism—this collection of thirty memre [discourses] has been long recognized as an important, yet understudied, work of the fourth century Syriac Church.

The Liber Graduum records the ups and downs of a real christian community and is not a theoretical projection. The author meanders through many themes, but always calls the readers back to the steps of Uprightness an...