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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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