The Spirituality of the Christian East, Volume 2This second volume on Eastern Christian spirituality amplifies in depth the final two chapters of the earlier The Spirituality of the Christian East: A Systematic Handbook. Like Cassian in writing his Conferences, Cardinal Spidla k does not advocate any particular pattern of prayer, but sets out faithfully to collect and share the teachings of generations of eastern monks and spiritual writers. |
Contents
AN OVERVIEW OF THE SOURCES | 1 |
The Alexandrian Fathers 2 Monastic Writings 3 The Golden | 12 |
LITURGICAL POETRY Greek Hymnography 18 Forms | 21 |
THE DIVINEHUMAN DIALOGUE | 31 |
The Necessity of Prayer 31 Definitions of Prayer 33 Various | 41 |
Intercession 46 Veneration of the Mother of God 47 | 47 |
PRAYER AS SUPPLICATION | 53 |
The Will of GodThe Norm for Petitions 59 The Order | 68 |
Natural Contemplation 183 The Moral Exegesis of | 187 |
MYSTICISM | 203 |
NEGATIVE THEOLOGY The Apophatic Way 209 What Falls | 214 |
Spiritual Ecstasy 227 Spiritual Prayer According | 228 |
The Transcendent Value of the Desire for Happiness 235 | 241 |
The Ascent of the Mind to God 252 The Spirit in | 254 |
MYSTICAL EXPRESSIONS The Language of the Spiritual Writers 261 | 261 |
Spiritual Marriage 261 Spiritual Inebriation 263 Watchful | 267 |
BODILY PRAYER | 74 |
Traditional Gestures 76 The Sign of the Cross 77 Genuflections | 85 |
LITURGICAL PRAYER | 94 |
The Mystical Nature of the Liturgy 98 The Allegorical | 100 |
The Spiritual Celebration of Festivals 105 Thanksgiving | 106 |
LITURGICAL ESCHATOLOGISM The Expectation of the Parousia 107 | 107 |
THE SACRAMENTS The Christian Life Is Sacramental 111 | 119 |
MEDITATIVE READING | 130 |
THE SEARCH FOR THE SPIRITUAL SENSE Beyond the Letter 136 | 136 |
MEDITATION HagaMeletanMeditari 140 Learning | 144 |
THE CONTEMPLATIVE EAST Mary EasternMartha Western? 152 | 152 |
The Definition of Contemplation | 158 |
The Theoteles Logos 162 The Various | 165 |
The Spiritual Senses 171 The Illuminated Nous 172 | 173 |
Charity Is the Door to Gnosis 178 The Life in Christ Leads | 179 |
THE DISPOSITIONS FOR PRAYER | 282 |
Joy 298 Gratitude 298 Poverty 299 | 299 |
Visible Preaching 306 The Place of Grace 306 | 306 |
MAIN CHARACTERISTICS The History of Hesychasm 319 | 319 |
Nepsis Antirrhesis WatchfulnessCounterstatement 325 | 325 |
THE JESUS PRAYER History of the Jesus Prayer 331 The Power | 332 |
Early Christians 333 Have Mercy on Me 334 God and | 338 |
the Heart 341 The Russian Pilgrim 343 The Natural | 345 |
CONCLUSION | 358 |
Solutions to the Problem 362 The Preeminence | 364 |
TABLE OF ABBREVIATIONS | 370 |
A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY | 381 |
TOPICAL INDEX | 493 |
NAMES INDEX | 507 |
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