Graham (Hrsg.) Speake

Spiritual Guidance on Mount Athos

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Spiritual guidance is the serious business of Mount Athos, the principal service that the Fathers offer to each other and to the world. Athonites have been purveyors of spiritual guidance for more than a thousand years in a tradition that goes back to the fourth-century desert fathers. The recent monastic renewal on the Mountain is testimony to the Fathers' continuing power to attract disciples and pilgrims to listen to what they have to say. The papers included in this volume examine some of the many aspects of this venerable tradition, as it has developed on Mount Athos, and as it has devolved upon monks and nuns, spiritual fathers and conf… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-3-0353-9654-6
EAN: 9783035396546
Produktnummer: 25679242
Verlag: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 0 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'795 KB

Über den Autor

Graham Speake studied classics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was awarded a doctorate by the University of Oxford for a thesis on the Byzantine transmission of ancient Greek literature. He is the founder and Chairman of the Friends of Mount Athos and author of Mount Athos: Renewal in Paradise (2 edn., 2014), for which he was awarded the Criticos Prize. He is also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Kallistos Ware holds a doctorate in theology from the University of Oxford where from 1966 to 2001 he was Fellow of Pembroke College and Spalding Lecturer in Eastern Orthodox Studies. He is a monk of the monastery of St. John the Theologian, Patmos, and an assistant bishop in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain. In 2007 he was raised to the rank of metropolitan.