Manna from Athos: The Issue of Frequent Communion on the Holy Mountain in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth CenturiesThis book contains the first complete English translation, fully annotated, of the treatise Concerning Frequent Communion, commonly attributed to Sts. Makarios of Corinth and Nikodemos the Hagiorite, the compilers of the Philokalia. This pivotal treatise, by two central figures in the Kollyvades movement, which originated on Mount Athos in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, addresses a somewhat less well-known corollary issue in Orthodox spirituality, that of frequent Communion. The authors discuss the controversy surrounding a decline in the frequency of Communion in the Christian East, the relationship of that controversy to the Kollyvades movement, and the theological arguments in support of frequent Communion advanced by Makarios and Nikodemos, whose joint authorship of the treatise they endeavor to substantiate. |
Contents
Acknowledgements | 7 |
The Kollyvades Movement | 27 |
The Treatise Concerning Frequent | 45 |
Chapter Two Exposition on the Lords Prayer | 65 |
Chapter Three i That It Is Necessary for Orthodox | 95 |
ii That Frequent Partaking of the Holy | 113 |
iii That Delaying Communion | 127 |
Chapter Four Responses to Thirteen Common | 133 |
Chapter Five Epilogue | 175 |
Bibliography | 183 |
Common terms and phrases
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