A History of the Athonite Commonwealth: The Spiritual and Cultural Diaspora of Mount Athos

ISBN-13: 9781108444323 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 308 str.

Graham Speake

Opis

Explores the role played by Athos in the spread of Orthodoxy and Orthodox monasticism throughout Eastern Europe and beyond.

Recenzje

'Before us is a well-conceived, methodologically consistent, and highly readable work which irrevocably ranks its author among the leading authorities on Mount Athos in the West today.' Vladeta Janković, Friends of Mount Athos Annual Report 2018

Spis treści

Part I: 1. Introduction; 2. The monastic life; Part II: 3. St Athanasios the Athonite (c.925–1000/1): founder of cenobitic monasticism on Athos; 4. The enlighteners of Georgia; 5. St Antony (983–1073) and St Theodosius (1035–1074) of Kiev: fathers of Russian monasticism; 6. St Sava (1175–1236): illuminator of Serbia; 7. St Gregory of Sinai (c.1265–1346): initiator of the 'Hesychast International'; 8. St Gregory Palamas (1296–1359): champion of hesychasm on Athos; 9. St Theodosius of Trnovo (c.1300–1363) and the Bulgarian school of hesychasm; 10. St Nikodimos of Tismana (1320–1406): transmitter of hesychasm to Wallachia; 11. St Sergius of Radonezh (1314–1392) and St Nil Sorsky (c.1433–1508): revivers of Russian monasticism; 12. St Maximos the Greek (c.1470–1556): enlightener of Russia; 13. St Kosmas the Aetolian (1714–1779): teacher of the Greek nation, apostle to the Albanians; 14. St Paisy Velichkovsky (1722–1794): reviver of hesychasm; 15. St Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain (1749–1809): editor of the Philokalia; 16. Athos and the West; Epilogue.