VI. Influence of Nil on His Contemporaries

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS 5
3. INTRODUCTION 9
4. ABBREVIATIONS USED 15
5. PART ONE. THE TIMES IN WHICH NIL SORSKIJ LIVED
6. I. A Nation in Flux 19
7. II. Biography of Nil 33
8. PART TWO. SPIRITUALITY OF NIL SORSKIJ
9. I. Ascetical Ideal 51
10. II. The Way Back to God 73
11. III. Hesychasm of Nil 103
12. IV. External Practices 149
13. V. Sources of Nil's Teaching 173
14. VI. Influence of Nil on His Contemporaries 199
15. EPILOGUE 239
16. Appendix I: Letters of Nil Sorskij 245
17. Appendix II: The Hesychastic Method 269
18. Sources 281
19. Particular Bibliography Dealing with Nil Sorskij 285
20. General Bibliography 289
21. Index 297
22. Backmatter 303