Orthodox Monasticism Past and Present / / ed. by John A. McGuckin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Artemi, Eirini,; Bibawy, A.,; Damian, Teodor,; Dedon, Theodore Grey,; Drăgoi, Macarie,; Elegba, Atsede Maryam,; Elia, Anthony J.,; Gather, Jill,; Grillo, John L.,; Hunt, Hannah,; Jankovic, Tea,; Jett, Mary Julia,; Johnson, Christopher D. L.,; Khan, Julia,; Mccarthy, Mary,; Mccarty, V. K.,; Mccray, Kate,; Mcguckin, J.A.,; Mckeown, Kevin,; Monge, Rico,; Najdek, Robert,; Novikov, Vasily,; Packwood, Joshua,; Paffhausen, Jonah,; Pahman, Dylan,; Petrakis, Vicki,; Pettis, Jeff,; Preble, Peter M.,; Ramelli, Ilaria L.E.,; Salés, Luis Joshua,; Samaras, Nicholas,; Thomas, Sujit T.,; Tucker, Gregory,; Ugolnik, Zachary,; Whipple, Karri L.,; Živojin Jakovljević, V. Rev.,
• HerausgeberIn: McGuckin, John A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (600 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; EDITORIAL FOREWORD --; PART ONE: ANCIENT CHRISTIAN ASCETICAL THEOLOGY --; EMBODYING TRADITION, SEEKING TRANSFORMATION: GLIMPSING ASCETICISM(S) IN THE NEW TESTAMENT --; MONASTICISM IN THE CHRISTIAN EAST: AN INTRODUCTION --; 'TAKING UPON THE LIKENESS OF ANGELS': ASCETICISM AS THE ANGELICAL LIFE IN APHRAHAT'S DEMONSTRATIONS --; THE RECITATION OF THE PSALMS AMONG EARLY CHRISTIAN ASCETICS --; THE VIRGINS SING ORTHODOXY: EPHREM'S CHOIRS & THE DISSEMINATION OF NICENE THOUGHT IN SYRIA --; THE POWER TO CURSE AND THE POWER TO SAVE: THE MONK, THE PROPHET & THE STORY OF ELISHA'S CURSE OF THE SHE BEARS (2 KINGS 2:23-24) --; RHETORIC AND THE MONASTIC RULE IN BYZANTIUM: FROM ANCHORITISM TO COENOBITISM --; THE DEVIL IN THE DESERT --; AN ANCIENT ASCETICAL DRAMA OF WOMAN AND THE DRAGON: PERPETUA'S RISE INTO THE ANIMUSWORLD --; THE PURE 'EYE OF HER SOUL': THE ASCETICISM OF THE DEACONESS OLYMPIAS AS REFLECTED IN THE WRITINGS OF THE FATHERS --; EVAGRIUS PONTICUS, THE ORIGENIAN ASCETIC (AND NOT THE ORIGENISTIC 'HERETIC') --; ASCETICISM THROUGH THE LENS OF ANTHROPOLOGY: THE GREEK FATHERS FROM JUSTIN TO GREGORY NAZIANZEN ON THE SOUL AND THE HOLY SPIRIT --; ST. SHENOUTE OF ATRIPE AND HIS MONASTIC ORDER --; HAGIOGRAPHIC TRADITIONS OF ETHIOPIAN MONASTICISM --; THE EVOLUTION OF FUNDAMENTAL CHRISTOLOGICAL ELEMENTS IN THE WORKS OF ST. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA --; HUMANITY'S RECONCILIATION WITH THE DIVINE THROUGH THE MYSTERY OF THE INCARNATION OF THE WORD IN THE THOUGHT OF ST. ISIDORE OF PELUSIUM & ST. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA --; THE MONK AS MOURNER: ST. ISAAC THE SYRIAN & MONASTIC IDENTITY IN THE 7TH C. & BEYOND --; THE DYING CHURCH: HIERARCHY AS SELF-SACRIFICE IN PSEUDODIONYSIUS --; PLOTINUS AND THE ESSENCE - ENERGEIA DISTINCTION: A NEOPLATONIC INFLUENCE ON DIONYSIUS AREOPAGITA --; MAXIMOS AND NEUROBIOLOGY: A NEUROTHEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF ASCETICISM AS EROSION OF THE PASSIONS & THE GNOMIC WILL --; CONVERTING THE USE OF DEATH: THE ASCETIC THEOLOGY OF ST MAXIMUS THE CONFESSOR IN AD THALASSIUM 61 --; THE MONK PHILOSOPHER IN YAḤYĀ IBN 'ADĪ (D. 974) AND SEVERUS IBN ALMUQAFFA' (D. C. 987) --; WHAT IS THE 'BREATH OF GOD'? - BIBLIOGRAPHIC THEOLOGY IN ARMENIAN HISTORY FROM ASTVACASHUNTCH TO ST. GRIGOR NAREKATSI'S THE BOOK OF SADNESS --; A ROYAL FAMILY: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SAINT SAVA AND HIS PARENTS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SERBIAN MONASTICISM AND THE SERBIAN CHURCH --; THE 15TH CENTURY TYPIKON OF NEILOS DAMILAS FOR THE CONVENT OF THE MOTHER OF GOD ON VENETIANCRETE --; PART TWO: MONASTIC REFLECTION AND MODERNITY --; CONTEMPORARY MONASTICISM: WHY JOIN A MONASTERY? --; A TRIPTYCH OF CONTEMPORARY ROMANIAN SPIRITUAL ELDERS --; THE BEAUTY OF SILENCE IN CHRISTIAN MONASTIC TRADITION --; THE 'MYSTICAL MUNDANE' IN FR. NIKON OF KAROULIA'S LETTERS TO GERALD PALMER --; PURIFYING THE HEART IN ORDER TO SEE: PRAXIS AND PERCEPTION IN DOSTOEVSKY'S BROTHERS KARAMAZOV --; THE CENTRALITY OF ST. ISAAC THE SYRIAN'S ASCETICAL THEOLOGY IN DOSTOEVSKY'S THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV --; ENGAGED MONASTICISM: MOTHER MARIA SKOBTSOVA AND TWENTYFIRST CENTURY AMERICAN ORTHODOX MONASTICISM --; PSYCHIC CRISIS IN MONASTIC COMMUNITIES: THE ASCETICAL WRITINGS OF EVAGRIUS OF PONTUS IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN UNDERSTANDINGS --; MARKETS AND MONASTICISM: A SURVEY & APPRAISAL OF EASTERN CHRISTIAN MONASTIC ENTERPRISE --; SPIRITUAL WARFARE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR APATHEIA --; THE CONCEPTS OF TIME AS APPLIED TO MONASTICISM & ASCETICISM --; NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463236656; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463236656
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by John A. McGuckin.

Studies in Eastern Orthodox monastic life and culture. Part 1 is devoted to New Testament, Patristic, and Byzantine foundations of eastern monastic theory, and Part 2 is comprised of contemporary reflections on Orthodox monastic life.