How would you feel if deep theological concepts are presented in poetic, tasty, easy format? Only Ephraem can present theology in poetry and get us to "come, taste, see that the Lord is good". When we sing "Amazing Grace", we here find a true Christian, Ephraem, so much amazed and mesmerized by the grace of Christ. Imagine communing with the Lord in these sweet words of Ephrem: 
 Who, Lord, can gaze on Your hiddenness 
 Which has come to revelation? Yes, Your obscurity 
 has come to manifestation and notification; Your concealed Being 
 has come out into the open, without limitation. 
 Your awesome self has come to the hands 
 of those who seized You. 
 All this has happened to You, Lord, 
 because you became a human being. 
 Praises to Him who send you. 
 Yet who will not fear 
 because, even though Your Epiphany is revealed 
 and so too Your human birth, 
 Your birth from the Father remains unattainable: 
 it has baffled all those who investigate it. 
 Theology is not a subject of heated, heady discussion but rather it is a subject of sweet adoration of the Lord, the Theo who is the subject of all our theology. With Ephrem, you lift many prayers in order to be enchanted by the Lord in adoration. 
 Here is another beautiful poem of his: 
 Whenever I have meditated upon You 
 I have acquired a veritable treasure from You; 
 Whatever aspect of You I have contemplated, 
 a stream has flowed from You. 
 There is no way I can contain it: 
 Your fountain [of truth], Lord, is hidden 
 from the person who does not thirst for You. (Faith 32:2-3) 
 If I were you I would read all the books of Sebastian Brock and get the deep things of Syriac spirituality into me.