THE CONCEPTS OF TIME AS APPLIED TO MONASTICISM & ASCETICISM

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1. Frontmatter i
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS v
3. EDITORIAL FOREWORD ix
4. PART ONE: ANCIENT CHRISTIAN ASCETICAL THEOLOGY
5. EMBODYING TRADITION, SEEKING TRANSFORMATION: GLIMPSING ASCETICISM(S) IN THE NEW TESTAMENT 3
6. MONASTICISM IN THE CHRISTIAN EAST: AN INTRODUCTION 21
7. ‘TAKING UPON THE LIKENESS OF ANGELS’: ASCETICISM AS THE ANGELICAL LIFE IN APHRAHAT’S DEMONSTRATIONS 35
8. THE RECITATION OF THE PSALMS AMONG EARLY CHRISTIAN ASCETICS 43
9. THE VIRGINS SING ORTHODOXY: EPHREM’S CHOIRS & THE DISSEMINATION OF NICENE THOUGHT IN SYRIA 67
10. 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) 83
11. RHETORIC AND THE MONASTIC RULE IN BYZANTIUM: FROM ANCHORITISM TO COENOBITISM 97
12. THE DEVIL IN THE DESERT 111
13. AN ANCIENT ASCETICAL DRAMA OF WOMAN AND THE DRAGON: PERPETUA’S RISE INTO THE ANIMUSWORLD 127
14. THE PURE ‘EYE OF HER SOUL’: THE ASCETICISM OF THE DEACONESS OLYMPIAS AS REFLECTED IN THE WRITINGS OF THE FATHERS 141
15. EVAGRIUS PONTICUS, THE ORIGENIAN ASCETIC (AND NOT THE ORIGENISTIC ‘HERETIC’) 159
16. ASCETICISM THROUGH THE LENS OF ANTHROPOLOGY: THE GREEK FATHERS FROM JUSTIN TO GREGORY NAZIANZEN ON THE SOUL AND THE HOLY SPIRIT 225
17. ST. SHENOUTE OF ATRIPE AND HIS MONASTIC ORDER 241
18. HAGIOGRAPHIC TRADITIONS OF ETHIOPIAN MONASTICISM 261
19. THE EVOLUTION OF FUNDAMENTAL CHRISTOLOGICAL ELEMENTS IN THE WORKS OF ST. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA 291
20. 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 313
21. THE MONK AS MOURNER: ST. ISAAC THE SYRIAN & MONASTIC IDENTITY IN THE 7^TH C. & BEYOND 331
22. THE DYING CHURCH: HIERARCHY AS SELF-SACRIFICE IN PSEUDODIONYSIUS 343
23. PLOTINUS AND THE ESSENCE – ENERGEIA DISTINCTION: A NEOPLATONIC INFLUENCE ON DIONYSIUS AREOPAGITA 357
24. MAXIMOS AND NEUROBIOLOGY: A NEUROTHEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF ASCETICISM AS EROSION OF THE PASSIONS & THE GNOMIC WILL 369
25. CONVERTING THE USE OF DEATH: THE ASCETIC THEOLOGY OF ST MAXIMUS THE CONFESSOR IN AD THALASSIUM 61 379
26. THE MONK PHILOSOPHER IN YAḤYĀ IBN ‘ADĪ (D. 974) AND SEVERUS IBN ALMUQAFFA’ (D. C. 987) 395
27. WHAT IS THE ‘BREATH OF GOD’? – BIBLIOGRAPHIC THEOLOGY IN ARMENIAN HISTORY FROM ASTVACASHUNTCH TO ST. GRIGOR NAREKATSI’S THE BOOK OF SADNESS 411
28. A ROYAL FAMILY: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SAINT SAVA AND HIS PARENTS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SERBIAN MONASTICISM AND THE SERBIAN CHURCH 423
29. THE 15^TH CENTURY TYPIKON OF NEILOS DAMILAS FOR THE CONVENT OF THE MOTHER OF GOD ON VENETIANCRETE 433
30. PART TWO: MONASTIC REFLECTION AND MODERNITY
31. CONTEMPORARY MONASTICISM: WHY JOIN A MONASTERY? 447
32. A TRIPTYCH OF CONTEMPORARY ROMANIAN SPIRITUAL ELDERS 455
33. THE BEAUTY OF SILENCE IN CHRISTIAN MONASTIC TRADITION 471
34. THE ‘MYSTICAL MUNDANE’ IN FR. NIKON OF KAROULIA’S LETTERS TO GERALD PALMER 485
35. PURIFYING THE HEART IN ORDER TO SEE: PRAXIS AND PERCEPTION IN DOSTOEVSKY’S BROTHERS KARAMAZOV 499
36. THE CENTRALITY OF ST. ISAAC THE SYRIAN’S ASCETICAL THEOLOGY IN DOSTOEVSKY’S THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV 505
37. ENGAGED MONASTICISM: MOTHER MARIA SKOBTSOVA AND TWENTYFIRST CENTURY AMERICAN ORTHODOX MONASTICISM 513
38. PSYCHIC CRISIS IN MONASTIC COMMUNITIES: THE ASCETICAL WRITINGS OF EVAGRIUS OF PONTUS IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN UNDERSTANDINGS 523
39. MARKETS AND MONASTICISM: A SURVEY & APPRAISAL OF EASTERN CHRISTIAN MONASTIC ENTERPRISE 535
40. SPIRITUAL WARFARE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR APATHEIA 563
41. THE CONCEPTS OF TIME AS APPLIED TO MONASTICISM & ASCETICISM 573
42. NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS 583