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The Philokalia: A Classic Text of Orthodox Spirituality

Brock Bingaman and Bradley Nassif

Abstract

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

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2012 Print ISBN-13: 9780195390261
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2012 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195390261.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Brock Bingaman, editor
Wesleyan College

Bradley Nassif, editor
North Park University

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Foreword

Preface

Abbreviations Used

Contributors

Introduction: Love of the Beautiful

Brock Bingaman and Bradley Nassif

Part One History

1 St. Nikodimos and the Philokalia

Kallistos Ware

2 The Making of the Philokalia: A Tale of Monks and Manuscripts

John Anthony McGuckin

3 The Influence of the Philokalia in the Orthodox World

Andrew Louth

4 Conversing with the World by Commenting on the Fathers: Fr. Dumitru Stăniloae and the Romanian Edition of the Philokalia

Mihail Neamtu

Part Two Theological Foundations

5 The Luminous Word: Scripture in the Philokalia1

Douglas Burton-Christie

6 Concerning Those Who Imagine That They Are Justified by Works: The Gospel According to St. Mark—the Monk

Bradley Nassif

7 The Theological World of the Philokalia1

Rowan Williams

8 Tradition and Creativity in the Construction and Reading of the Philokalia

J. L. Zecher

9 Becoming a Spiritual World of God: The Theological Anthropology of Maximus the Confessor

Brock Bingaman

10 The Ecclesiology of the Philokalia

Krastu Banev

11 Evagrius in the Philokalia of Sts. Macarius and Nicodemus

Julia Konstantinovsky

Part Three Spiritual Practices

12 The Place of the Jesus Prayer in the Philokalia

Mary B. Cunningham

13 Uses and Abuses of Spiritual Authority in the Writings of St. Symeon the New Theologian

Hannah Hunt

14 Hope for the Passible Self: The Use and Transformation of the Human Passions in the Fathers of the Philokalia

Paul M. Blowers

15 Healing, Psychotherapy, and the Philokalia

Christopher C. H. Cook

16 The Philokalia and Regulative Virtue Epistemology: A Look at Maximus the Confessor

Frederick D. Aquino

17 Women in the Philokalia?

Verna E. F. Harrison

18 Solitude, Silence, and Stillness: Light from the Palestinian Desert

John Chryssavgis

End Matter

Name Index

Subject Index