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This book is a collection of scholarly chapters that introduces the history, theology and spiritual practices of the Philokalia — a collection of monastic texts of the Eastern Orthodox Church written between the fourth and fifteenth centuries. Next to the Bible, it is the most widely read book in the Orthodox world today by monks and laypeople alike. It is rapidly gaining popularity among Roman Catholics and Protestants. Bishop Kallistos Ware aptly summarizes its place in the modern world: “The work as a whole is to be seen as a spiritual ‘time bomb,’ whose chief influence has come, not at the ... More
Keywords: Philokalia, monastic, spirituality, Ware, Orthodox, Mount Athos
Print publication date: 2012 | Print ISBN-13: 9780195390261 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2012 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195390261.001.0001 |
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