The Theological and Practical Treatises and the Three Theological Discourses: Volume 41

by Symeon the New Theologian

Book Overview

Symeon the New Theologian transformed the Evagrian tradition of hesychia, with its insistence on absolute solitude remote from the affairs of men, and practiced it in a monastery in the very heart of Constantinople. A champion of Orthodoxy, and of monks, he composed works which became perhaps the most important source of the hesychast movement on Mount Athos two centuries after his death. Always the spiritual master rather than the systematic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087907941X
• ISBN13: 9780879079413
• Release Date: November 1982
• Publisher: Liturgical Press
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"