TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cook,Chris
TI  - The Philokalia and the inner life: on passions and prayer 
SN  - 9780227900055
AV  - BX382.P43 C66 2011eb
U1  - 200.9 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge, U.K.
PB  - James Clarke & Co.
KW  - Philokalia
KW  - Spiritual life
KW  - Orthodox Eastern Church
KW  - Emotions
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Comparative Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Essays
KW  - Reference
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Theology / History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.); Includes bibliographical references (pages p. 361-366) and index
N2  - 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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