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Isaac of Nineveh (7th century AD), or Isaac the Syrian, was, among all the Syriac writers, the one to exert the greatest influence outside the Syriac-speaking world, becoming a highly venerated Father of Byzantine Orthodox spirituality and theology. In Isaak von Nineve und seine Kephalaia Gnostika, Nestor Kavvadas first draws out the frictions between East Syrian episcopacy and the anchorite mystical movement as represented by Isaac, in search of the historical context of Isaac’s teaching on the working of the Holy Spirit on the monk. Then, he draws out of Isaac’s writings, and especially the Kephalaia Gnostika, the underlying structure of Isaac’s thought on the working of the Holy Spirit, with the tension here between the here and now and the ‘New World’ that can be momentarily anticipated in the present world.

Holy Spirit --- Hermits --- Anchorites --- Eremites --- Persons --- Hermitages --- Recluses --- History of doctrines. --- History --- Isaac, --- Isaak, --- Isacco, --- Isḥāq, Mār, --- Izaak, --- Isak, --- Исаак, --- Исак, --- إسحاق النينوي --- اسحق --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Orthodox Eastern Church --- Theology. --- of Nineveh, Isaac --- Nineveh, Isaac Of --- Holy Spirit - History of doctrines --- Hermits - Syria - History - To 1500 --- Mysticism - Syria - History - To 1500 --- Monasticism and religious orders - Syria - History - To 1500 --- Isaac, - Bishop of Nineveh, - active 7th century - Criticism and interpretation --- Mysticism --- Monasticism and religious orders --- Isaac, - Bishop of Nineveh, - active 7th century