... Orthodoxy’s types of monasticism, reception of waves of hesychasm, cults of saints and the profound change that occurred in the church from the 1660s, exemplified by the “Old Belief” schism (whose political and doctrinal causes are examined) and the influx of reformed Orthodox practices and imagery from...

... Soteriology Voulgaris Eugenios Church discipline Lombard Peter Marriage matrimony Voltaire Saint Thomas Christians Methodism New Testament Reformed tradition Sanctification Septuagint Wesley Charles Islam Rationalism Deification Hesychasm Meister Eckhart Nicholas of Cusa Nikodemos...

... by position and length; second, by providing theological explanation using especially the concepts of hesychasm and kenosis; and third, by tackling the problems of performance and notation of silence using examples from works representative of different periods and genres from his oeuvre. Finally...

...–) and conflicting, alterative Westernizing visions among Europe-oriented elites. conversion culture Ilarion Metropolitan eleventh century Rus’ Russian Orthodoxy asceticism elders icons monasticism Nestor communion confession liturgy Augustine Byzantium hesychasm Muscovy scholasticism Trinity...

... deification Jesus Christ Pushkin Alexander Akhmatova Anna Mary mother of God Tikhon of Zadonsk St creation Schelling Friedrich romanticism Ivanov Viacheslav theurgy Tsvetaevna Marina all unity Blok Aleksandr Gippius Zinaida communion Pasternak Boris Silver Age apophaticism hesychasm...

... . New York: Oxford University Press. Bushkovitch, Paul ( 1986 ). ‘ The Limits of Hesychasm: Some Notes on Monastic Spirituality in Russia, 1350–1500 ’. Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte 38: 97–109. Charipova, L. V. ( 2014 ). ‘ Spare Ribs? Early Modern Female...

... Fathers Church Florensky P A Gregory Palamas Heart Hesychasm Jesus prayer Kireevsky I V Marxism Merezhkovsky D S Monasticism New religious consciousness Optina Pustyn hermitage Paisy Velichkovsky Praxis Problems of Idealism Sacraments Symbolism Theophan the Recluse Transfiguration...

... Antony of Egypt Antony of Kiev Athanasius the Athonite Athos Mount Benz E Christodoulos of Patmos Egypt hesychasm Paul the hermit Peter the Athonite Bûlus al–Bûšî Dionysius bar Salîbî Hippolytus Ibn Kâtib Qaisar Nerses of Lambron Contendings of the Apostles Syriac History of John Travels...

... in Romania. Gregory Palamas Neamtu Mihail Staniloae Dumitru 1903–93 Church Communion Dogma Fasting Intimate communion Compunction Contemplation Experience Liturgy Orthodoxy Theology Dorotheos of Gaza 6th c Hesychasm Natural contemplation Paradise Solitude Friendship Jesus Christ Cyril...

...This chapter examines some of the traditions of attitudes towards language, which form part of the cultural backdrop to Augustine's work. Particular attention is given to the growth of hesychasm and abstention from language in the 4th century, a phenomenon usually associated with monasticism...

..., the phenomenon of modern Palamism is touched on. Palamite or Hesychast controversy Palamas St Gregory apophaticism Aristotle Athos Mt essence and energies distinction Gnosticism Jesus Prayer asceticism body human hesychasm adoption divine hierarchy transfiguration of Jesus Heresy materialism...

... the monastic revival associated with Basil of Poiana Mărului, which included Paisy Velichkovsky of the Slavonic Dobrotolyubie, and contemporary quests for lost ascetic literature—the tributaries to the Philokalia—were concerned to promote the Jesus Prayer and hesychasm...

.... The second charts historical divergences, notably over right relations between monks and society. The third discusses sporadic internal conflicts, including that over hesychasm. Bibliography Primary Sources: Texts and Translations Antiochos the Monk, Pandektes . Greek text: PG 89: 1420...

... Gregory St symbols religious Trinity apophaticism hesychasm Nikon Rozhdestvenskii Archbishop Sergii Stragorodskii Metropolitan Troitskii Sergei doctrine Ilarion Alfeev Metropolitan pantheism rationalism Trinity Sergius monastery Berdiaev Nikolai Ern Vladimir Florensky Pavel Nicholas II...

...This chapter discusses some of the pervasive themes in the Russian religious and spiritual traditions: the idea that the Kingdom of God will come on earth; the richness of the inner life, as seen in Hesychasm; the idea of Russia as Third Rome. A section of the chapter focuses on the lives and works...

... in deification), far from sidelining the person of Christ, places him at its heart; without the Incarnate Christ, no access to human perfection is conceivable for Palamas. Psalms LXX 26 7 essence–energies distinction anti Palamite thought Barlaam of Calabria Hesychasm and Hesychast Controversy Holy Spirit...

... Philotheus of Sinai hesychasm monastic movement Sinaite school Elias of Crete Symeon the New Theologian Theodore the Studite mourning and tears philokalia prayer Diadochus of Photice Mark the Monk Nilus of Ancyra triodion penitential canon Gaza school will coenobium unity of human being...

... there. Joseph Azize s argument that the inner exercises that Gurdjieff termed Transformed- contemplation or Aiëssirittoorassnian- contemplation were likely derived from Hesychasm, a contemplative practice in the Orthodox tradition, and specifically from the monastery of Mount Athos in Greece, goes farther...

... (1914) in the context of Florensky’s still recent conversion to Christianity and of the tradition of contemplative mysticism (hesychasm) as expressed in the Philokalia and embodied in the saintly elders (startsy) of the Orthodox Church. It is structured around the idea...

... from the Byzantine society; its survival was due to the rise of Hesychasm and more precisely to Mount Athos, as the vitae of Maximos Kausokalybites demonstrate. After the Turkish conquest, holy foolery practically disappeared from post-Byzantine culture; today the word ‘salos’ is normally not known...