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Mary Hansbury offers a fresh presentation of On Ascetical Life by Isaac of Nineveh, whose monastic anthropology had a major influence on all of Byzantine spiritual literature. According to St. Isaac, the way toward God was threefold: the way of the body, the way of the soul, and the way of the spirit. In the first stage, the person begins with a total preoccupation with the passions and moves...

of these things are experienced as contradictions and not for the sake of testing. The taunts that trust in God does not “pay off” and that God is not so concerned for you as He is thought to be, which are frequently buzzed by those who lie in wait and shoot their arrows from ambush—these taunts are not worthy of response. 9. The beginning of a person’s true life is the fear of God.7 But this fear does not consent to remain in the soul together with the distraction of things. For when the heart serves
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