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Orthodox Monasticism Past and Present / ed. by John A. McGuckin.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Gorgias Eastern Christian StudiesPublisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (600 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781463205300
  • 9781463236656
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 281/.81 23
LOC classification:
  • BX385.A1 O78 2015
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- EDITORIAL FOREWORD -- PART ONE: ANCIENT CHRISTIAN ASCETICAL THEOLOGY -- EMBODYING TRADITION, SEEKING TRANSFORMATION: GLIMPSING ASCETICISM(S) IN THE NEW TESTAMENT -- MONASTICISM IN THE CHRISTIAN EAST: AN INTRODUCTION -- ‘TAKING UPON THE LIKENESS OF ANGELS’: ASCETICISM AS THE ANGELICAL LIFE IN APHRAHAT’S DEMONSTRATIONS -- THE RECITATION OF THE PSALMS AMONG EARLY CHRISTIAN ASCETICS -- THE VIRGINS SING ORTHODOXY: EPHREM’S CHOIRS & THE DISSEMINATION OF NICENE THOUGHT IN SYRIA -- THE POWER TO CURSE AND THE POWER TO SAVE: THE MONK, THE PROPHET & THE STORY OF ELISHA’S CURSE OF THE SHE BEARS (2 KINGS 2:23–24) -- RHETORIC AND THE MONASTIC RULE IN BYZANTIUM: FROM ANCHORITISM TO COENOBITISM -- THE DEVIL IN THE DESERT -- AN ANCIENT ASCETICAL DRAMA OF WOMAN AND THE DRAGON: PERPETUA’S RISE INTO THE ANIMUSWORLD -- THE PURE ‘EYE OF HER SOUL’: THE ASCETICISM OF THE DEACONESS OLYMPIAS AS REFLECTED IN THE WRITINGS OF THE FATHERS -- EVAGRIUS PONTICUS, THE ORIGENIAN ASCETIC (AND NOT THE ORIGENISTIC ‘HERETIC’) -- ASCETICISM THROUGH THE LENS OF ANTHROPOLOGY: THE GREEK FATHERS FROM JUSTIN TO GREGORY NAZIANZEN ON THE SOUL AND THE HOLY SPIRIT -- ST. SHENOUTE OF ATRIPE AND HIS MONASTIC ORDER -- HAGIOGRAPHIC TRADITIONS OF ETHIOPIAN MONASTICISM -- THE EVOLUTION OF FUNDAMENTAL CHRISTOLOGICAL ELEMENTS IN THE WORKS OF ST. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA -- HUMANITY’S RECONCILIATION WITH THE DIVINE THROUGH THE MYSTERY OF THE INCARNATION OF THE WORD IN THE THOUGHT OF ST. ISIDORE OF PELUSIUM & ST. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA -- THE MONK AS MOURNER: ST. ISAAC THE SYRIAN & MONASTIC IDENTITY IN THE 7TH C. & BEYOND -- THE DYING CHURCH: HIERARCHY AS SELF-SACRIFICE IN PSEUDODIONYSIUS -- PLOTINUS AND THE ESSENCE – ENERGEIA DISTINCTION: A NEOPLATONIC INFLUENCE ON DIONYSIUS AREOPAGITA -- MAXIMOS AND NEUROBIOLOGY: A NEUROTHEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF ASCETICISM AS EROSION OF THE PASSIONS & THE GNOMIC WILL -- CONVERTING THE USE OF DEATH: THE ASCETIC THEOLOGY OF ST MAXIMUS THE CONFESSOR IN AD THALASSIUM 61 -- THE MONK PHILOSOPHER IN YAḤYĀ IBN ‘ADĪ (D. 974) AND SEVERUS IBN ALMUQAFFA’ (D. C. 987) -- WHAT IS THE ‘BREATH OF GOD’? – BIBLIOGRAPHIC THEOLOGY IN ARMENIAN HISTORY FROM ASTVACASHUNTCH TO ST. GRIGOR NAREKATSI’S THE BOOK OF SADNESS -- A ROYAL FAMILY: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SAINT SAVA AND HIS PARENTS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SERBIAN MONASTICISM AND THE SERBIAN CHURCH -- THE 15TH CENTURY TYPIKON OF NEILOS DAMILAS FOR THE CONVENT OF THE MOTHER OF GOD ON VENETIANCRETE -- PART TWO: MONASTIC REFLECTION AND MODERNITY -- CONTEMPORARY MONASTICISM: WHY JOIN A MONASTERY? -- A TRIPTYCH OF CONTEMPORARY ROMANIAN SPIRITUAL ELDERS -- THE BEAUTY OF SILENCE IN CHRISTIAN MONASTIC TRADITION -- THE ‘MYSTICAL MUNDANE’ IN FR. NIKON OF KAROULIA’S LETTERS TO GERALD PALMER -- PURIFYING THE HEART IN ORDER TO SEE: PRAXIS AND PERCEPTION IN DOSTOEVSKY’S BROTHERS KARAMAZOV -- THE CENTRALITY OF ST. ISAAC THE SYRIAN’S ASCETICAL THEOLOGY IN DOSTOEVSKY’S THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV -- ENGAGED MONASTICISM: MOTHER MARIA SKOBTSOVA AND TWENTYFIRST CENTURY AMERICAN ORTHODOX MONASTICISM -- PSYCHIC CRISIS IN MONASTIC COMMUNITIES: THE ASCETICAL WRITINGS OF EVAGRIUS OF PONTUS IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN UNDERSTANDINGS -- MARKETS AND MONASTICISM: A SURVEY & APPRAISAL OF EASTERN CHRISTIAN MONASTIC ENTERPRISE -- SPIRITUAL WARFARE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR APATHEIA -- THE CONCEPTS OF TIME AS APPLIED TO MONASTICISM & ASCETICISM -- NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS
Summary: Studies in Eastern Orthodox monastic life and culture. Part 1 is devoted to New Testament, Patristic, and Byzantine foundations of eastern monastic theory, and Part 2 is comprised of contemporary reflections on Orthodox monastic life.

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- EDITORIAL FOREWORD -- PART ONE: ANCIENT CHRISTIAN ASCETICAL THEOLOGY -- EMBODYING TRADITION, SEEKING TRANSFORMATION: GLIMPSING ASCETICISM(S) IN THE NEW TESTAMENT -- MONASTICISM IN THE CHRISTIAN EAST: AN INTRODUCTION -- ‘TAKING UPON THE LIKENESS OF ANGELS’: ASCETICISM AS THE ANGELICAL LIFE IN APHRAHAT’S DEMONSTRATIONS -- THE RECITATION OF THE PSALMS AMONG EARLY CHRISTIAN ASCETICS -- THE VIRGINS SING ORTHODOXY: EPHREM’S CHOIRS & THE DISSEMINATION OF NICENE THOUGHT IN SYRIA -- THE POWER TO CURSE AND THE POWER TO SAVE: THE MONK, THE PROPHET & THE STORY OF ELISHA’S CURSE OF THE SHE BEARS (2 KINGS 2:23–24) -- RHETORIC AND THE MONASTIC RULE IN BYZANTIUM: FROM ANCHORITISM TO COENOBITISM -- THE DEVIL IN THE DESERT -- AN ANCIENT ASCETICAL DRAMA OF WOMAN AND THE DRAGON: PERPETUA’S RISE INTO THE ANIMUSWORLD -- THE PURE ‘EYE OF HER SOUL’: THE ASCETICISM OF THE DEACONESS OLYMPIAS AS REFLECTED IN THE WRITINGS OF THE FATHERS -- EVAGRIUS PONTICUS, THE ORIGENIAN ASCETIC (AND NOT THE ORIGENISTIC ‘HERETIC’) -- ASCETICISM THROUGH THE LENS OF ANTHROPOLOGY: THE GREEK FATHERS FROM JUSTIN TO GREGORY NAZIANZEN ON THE SOUL AND THE HOLY SPIRIT -- ST. SHENOUTE OF ATRIPE AND HIS MONASTIC ORDER -- HAGIOGRAPHIC TRADITIONS OF ETHIOPIAN MONASTICISM -- THE EVOLUTION OF FUNDAMENTAL CHRISTOLOGICAL ELEMENTS IN THE WORKS OF ST. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA -- HUMANITY’S RECONCILIATION WITH THE DIVINE THROUGH THE MYSTERY OF THE INCARNATION OF THE WORD IN THE THOUGHT OF ST. ISIDORE OF PELUSIUM & ST. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA -- THE MONK AS MOURNER: ST. ISAAC THE SYRIAN & MONASTIC IDENTITY IN THE 7TH C. & BEYOND -- THE DYING CHURCH: HIERARCHY AS SELF-SACRIFICE IN PSEUDODIONYSIUS -- PLOTINUS AND THE ESSENCE – ENERGEIA DISTINCTION: A NEOPLATONIC INFLUENCE ON DIONYSIUS AREOPAGITA -- MAXIMOS AND NEUROBIOLOGY: A NEUROTHEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF ASCETICISM AS EROSION OF THE PASSIONS & THE GNOMIC WILL -- CONVERTING THE USE OF DEATH: THE ASCETIC THEOLOGY OF ST MAXIMUS THE CONFESSOR IN AD THALASSIUM 61 -- THE MONK PHILOSOPHER IN YAḤYĀ IBN ‘ADĪ (D. 974) AND SEVERUS IBN ALMUQAFFA’ (D. C. 987) -- WHAT IS THE ‘BREATH OF GOD’? – BIBLIOGRAPHIC THEOLOGY IN ARMENIAN HISTORY FROM ASTVACASHUNTCH TO ST. GRIGOR NAREKATSI’S THE BOOK OF SADNESS -- A ROYAL FAMILY: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SAINT SAVA AND HIS PARENTS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SERBIAN MONASTICISM AND THE SERBIAN CHURCH -- THE 15TH CENTURY TYPIKON OF NEILOS DAMILAS FOR THE CONVENT OF THE MOTHER OF GOD ON VENETIANCRETE -- PART TWO: MONASTIC REFLECTION AND MODERNITY -- CONTEMPORARY MONASTICISM: WHY JOIN A MONASTERY? -- A TRIPTYCH OF CONTEMPORARY ROMANIAN SPIRITUAL ELDERS -- THE BEAUTY OF SILENCE IN CHRISTIAN MONASTIC TRADITION -- THE ‘MYSTICAL MUNDANE’ IN FR. NIKON OF KAROULIA’S LETTERS TO GERALD PALMER -- PURIFYING THE HEART IN ORDER TO SEE: PRAXIS AND PERCEPTION IN DOSTOEVSKY’S BROTHERS KARAMAZOV -- THE CENTRALITY OF ST. ISAAC THE SYRIAN’S ASCETICAL THEOLOGY IN DOSTOEVSKY’S THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV -- ENGAGED MONASTICISM: MOTHER MARIA SKOBTSOVA AND TWENTYFIRST CENTURY AMERICAN ORTHODOX MONASTICISM -- PSYCHIC CRISIS IN MONASTIC COMMUNITIES: THE ASCETICAL WRITINGS OF EVAGRIUS OF PONTUS IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN UNDERSTANDINGS -- MARKETS AND MONASTICISM: A SURVEY & APPRAISAL OF EASTERN CHRISTIAN MONASTIC ENTERPRISE -- SPIRITUAL WARFARE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR APATHEIA -- THE CONCEPTS OF TIME AS APPLIED TO MONASTICISM & ASCETICISM -- NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS

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Studies in Eastern Orthodox monastic life and culture. Part 1 is devoted to New Testament, Patristic, and Byzantine foundations of eastern monastic theory, and Part 2 is comprised of contemporary reflections on Orthodox monastic life.

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