دانلود کتاب Orthodox Monasticism Past and Present

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TABLE OF CONTENTS\nEDITORIAL FOREWORD\nPART ONE: ANCIENT CHRISTIAN ASCETICAL THEOLOGY\nEMBODYING TRADITION, SEEKING TRANSFORMATION: GLIMPSING ASCETICISM(S) IN THE NEW TESTAMENT\nMONASTICISM IN THE CHRISTIAN EAST: AN INTRODUCTION\n‘TAKING UPON THE LIKENESS OF ANGELS’: ASCETICISM AS THE ANGELICAL LIFE IN APHRAHAT’S DEMONSTRATIONS\nTHE RECITATION OF THE PSALMS AMONG EARLY CHRISTIAN ASCETICS\nTHE VIRGINS SING ORTHODOXY: EPHREM’S CHOIRS & THE DISSEMINATION OF NICENE THOUGHT IN SYRIA\nTHE 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)\nRHETORIC AND THE MONASTIC RULE IN BYZANTIUM: FROM ANCHORITISM TO COENOBITISM\nTHE DEVIL IN THE DESERT\nAN ANCIENT ASCETICAL DRAMA OF WOMAN AND THE DRAGON: PERPETUA’S RISE INTO THE ANIMUSWORLD\nTHE PURE ‘EYE OF HER SOUL’: THE ASCETICISM OF THE DEACONESS OLYMPIAS AS REFLECTED IN THE WRITINGS OF THE FATHERS\nEVAGRIUS PONTICUS, THE ORIGENIAN ASCETIC (AND NOT THE ORIGENISTIC ‘HERETIC’)\nASCETICISM THROUGH THE LENS OF ANTHROPOLOGY: THE GREEK FATHERS FROM JUSTIN TO GREGORY NAZIANZEN ON THE SOUL AND THE HOLY SPIRIT\nST. SHENOUTE OF ATRIPE AND HIS MONASTIC ORDER\nHAGIOGRAPHIC TRADITIONS OF ETHIOPIAN MONASTICISM\nTHE EVOLUTION OF FUNDAMENTAL CHRISTOLOGICAL ELEMENTS IN THE WORKS OF ST. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA\nHUMANITY’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\nTHE MONK AS MOURNER: ST. ISAAC THE SYRIAN & MONASTIC IDENTITY IN THE 7^TH C. & BEYOND\nTHE DYING CHURCH: HIERARCHY AS SELF-SACRIFICE IN PSEUDODIONYSIUS\nPLOTINUS AND THE ESSENCE – ENERGEIA DISTINCTION: A NEOPLATONIC INFLUENCE ON DIONYSIUS AREOPAGITA\nMAXIMOS AND NEUROBIOLOGY: A NEUROTHEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF ASCETICISM AS EROSION OF THE PASSIONS & THE GNOMIC WILL\nCONVERTING THE USE OF DEATH: THE ASCETIC THEOLOGY OF ST MAXIMUS THE CONFESSOR IN AD THALASSIUM 61\nTHE MONK PHILOSOPHER IN YAḤYĀ IBN ‘ADĪ (D. 974) AND SEVERUS IBN ALMUQAFFA’ (D. C. 987)\nWHAT IS THE ‘BREATH OF GOD’? – BIBLIOGRAPHIC THEOLOGY IN ARMENIAN HISTORY FROM ASTVACASHUNTCH TO ST. GRIGOR NAREKATSI’S THE BOOK OF SADNESS\nA ROYAL FAMILY: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SAINT SAVA AND HIS PARENTS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SERBIAN MONASTICISM AND THE SERBIAN CHURCH\nTHE 15^TH CENTURY TYPIKON OF NEILOS DAMILAS FOR THE CONVENT OF THE MOTHER OF GOD ON VENETIANCRETE\nPART TWO: MONASTIC REFLECTION AND MODERNITY\nCONTEMPORARY MONASTICISM: WHY JOIN A MONASTERY?\nA TRIPTYCH OF CONTEMPORARY ROMANIAN SPIRITUAL ELDERS\nTHE BEAUTY OF SILENCE IN CHRISTIAN MONASTIC TRADITION\nTHE ‘MYSTICAL MUNDANE’ IN FR. NIKON OF KAROULIA’S LETTERS TO GERALD PALMER\nPURIFYING THE HEART IN ORDER TO SEE: PRAXIS AND PERCEPTION IN DOSTOEVSKY’S BROTHERS KARAMAZOV\nTHE CENTRALITY OF ST. ISAAC THE SYRIAN’S ASCETICAL THEOLOGY IN DOSTOEVSKY’S THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV\nENGAGED MONASTICISM: MOTHER MARIA SKOBTSOVA AND TWENTYFIRST CENTURY AMERICAN ORTHODOX MONASTICISM\nPSYCHIC CRISIS IN MONASTIC COMMUNITIES: THE ASCETICAL WRITINGS OF EVAGRIUS OF PONTUS IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN UNDERSTANDINGS\nMARKETS AND MONASTICISM: A SURVEY & APPRAISAL OF EASTERN CHRISTIAN MONASTIC ENTERPRISE\nSPIRITUAL WARFARE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR APATHEIA\nTHE CONCEPTS OF TIME AS APPLIED TO MONASTICISM & ASCETICISM\nNOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS