Graham Speake

A History of the Athonite Commonwealth

The Spiritual and Cultural Diaspora of Mount Athos

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 636g
• ISBN-13: 9781108425865
• ISBN-10: 1108425860
• Artikelnr.: 51268882

Autorenporträt

Graham Speake is founder and Chairman of the Friends of Mount Athos. He is a regular visitor to the Mountain and was received into the Orthodox Church there in 1999. Trained as a classicist, he holds a doctorate in Greek from the University of Oxford and is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. His first book, Mount Athos: Renewal in Paradise (2nd edition, 2014), was awarded the Criticos Prize.

Inhaltsangabe

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.