The Philokalia A Classic Text of Orthodox Spirituality

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History PART ONE 1 St. Nikodimos and the Philokalia KALLISTOS WARE 2 The Making of the Philokalia: A Tale of Monks and Manuscripts JOHN ANTHONY MCGUCKIN 3 The Influence of the Philokalia in the Orthodox World ANDREW LOUTH 4 Conversing with the World by Commenting on the Fathers: Fr. Dumitru Staniloae and the Romanian Edition of the Philokalia MIHAIL NEAMTU PART TWO Theological Foundations 5 The Luminous Word: Scripture in the Philokalia DOUGLAS BURTON-CHRISTIE 6 Concerning Those Who Imagine That They Are Justified by Works: The Gospel According to St. Mark-the Monk BRADLEY NASSIF 7 The Theological World of the Philokalia ROWAN WILLIAMS 8 Tradition and Creativity in the Construction and Reading ofthe Philokalia j. L. ZECHER 9 Becoming a Spiritual World of God: The Theological Anthropology of Maximus the Confessor BROCK BINGAMAN 10 The Ecclesiology of the Philokalia KRASTU BANEV 11 Evagrius in the Philokalia of Sts. Macarius and Nicodemus JULIA KONSTANTINOVSKY PART THREE Spiritual Practices 12 The Place of the Jesus Prayer in the Philokalia MARY B. CUNNINGHAM 13 Uses and Abuses of Spiritual Authority in the Writings of St. Symeon the New Theologian HANNAH HUNT 14 Hope for the Passible Self: The Use and Transformation of the Human Passions in the Fathers of the Philokalia PAUL M. BLOWERS 15 Healing, Psychotherapy, and the Philokalia CHRISTOPHER C. H. COOK 16 The Philokalia and Regulative Virtue Epistemology: A Look at Maximus the Confessor FREDERICK D. AQUINO 17 Women in the Philokalia? VERNA E. F. HARRISON 18 Solitude, Silence, and Stillness: Light from the Palestinian Desert JOHN CHRYSSAVGIS