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The Philokalia and the inner life [electronic resource] : on passions and prayer / Christopher C.H. Cook.

By: Publication details: Cambridge, U.K. : James Clarke & Co., 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 366 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780227900055
  • 0227900057
  • 9780227900079
  • 0227900073
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Philokalia and the inner life.DDC classification:
  • 200.9 22
LOC classification:
  • BX382.P43 C66 2011eb
Online resources: Summary: The Philokalia was published in Venice in 1782. It is an anthology of patristic writings from the Eastern Church, spanning the 4th to the 15th Centuries, which has been the subsequent focus of a significant revival in Orthodox spirituality. It presents an understanding of psychopathology and mental life which is significantly different to that usually encountered in western Christianity. It also presents accounts of both mental well-being and the pathologies of the mind or soul that are radically different to contemporary secular accounts and yet also find remarkable points of similarity with.
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Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.).

Includes bibliographical references (pages p. 361-366) and index.

The Philokalia was published in Venice in 1782. It is an anthology of patristic writings from the Eastern Church, spanning the 4th to the 15th Centuries, which has been the subsequent focus of a significant revival in Orthodox spirituality. It presents an understanding of psychopathology and mental life which is significantly different to that usually encountered in western Christianity. It also presents accounts of both mental well-being and the pathologies of the mind or soul that are radically different to contemporary secular accounts and yet also find remarkable points of similarity with.

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