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Influenced by Origen and Gregory of Nyssa, Evagrius taught that the goal of man is reunion with God, which man effects through asceticism and contemplation.
However, Evagrius also believed that the original unity of God and His rational beings was broken by a fault of the beings, who became souls and were later joined to bodies.
Evagrius taught that Christ was the only one of the rational beings to stay with God when the others lapsed and took a body to lead other souls to a similar unity with God.
Evagrius stood beside his friend and Bishop (who was now also his spiritual father) in the Maximus controversy, and during the Council of 381, thus Evagrius won the affectionate gratitude of St. Gregory the Theologian.
Evagrius suffered what appears to have been a nervous breakdown, and his life was in danger because the betrayed husband had planned an ambush on his life.
Evagrius severe ascetism, damaged his health, and he was forced to reduce his ascetic standards, but after two years of this, his weakening health collapsed and he died at the age of fifty-four, outliving his first friend and spiritual father with only four years.
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