The Philokalia

Abbreviations Used Foreword: Kallistos Ware Introduction: Brock Bingaman and Brad Nassif HISTORY Chapter One: St. Nikodimos and the Philokalia by Kallistos Ware Chapter Two: The Making of the Philokalia: A Tale of Monks and Manuscripts by John Anthony McGuckin Chapter Three: The Influence of the Philokalia in the Orthodox World by Andrew Louth Chapter Four: Conversing with the World by Commenting on the Fathers: Fr Dumitru Staniloae and the Romanian Edition of The Philokalia by Mihail Neamtu THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS Chapter Five: The Luminous Word: Scripture in the Philokalia by Douglas-Burton Christie Chapter Six: Concerning Those Who Imagine That They Are Justified by Works: The Gospel According to St. Mark - the Monk by Bradley Nassif Chapter Seven: The Theological World of the Philokalia by Rowan Williams Chapter Eight: Tradition and Creativity in the Construction and Reading of the Philokalia by J.L. Zecher Chapter Nine: Becoming a Spiritual World of God: The Theological Anthropology of Maximus the Confessor by Brock Bingaman Chapter Ten: The Ecclesiology of the Philokalia by Krastu Banev Chapter Eleven: Evagrius in the Philocalia of Sts Macarius and Nicodemus by Julia Konstantinovsky SPIRITUAL PRACTICES Chapter Twelve: The Place of the Jesus Prayer in the Philokalia by Mary B. Cunningham Chapter Thirteen: Uses and Abuses of Spiritual Authority in the Writings of St. Symeon the New Theologian by Hannah Hunt Chapter Fourteen: Hope for the Passible Self: The Use and Transformation of the Human Passions in the Fathers of the Philokalia by Paul M. Blowers Chapter Fifteen: Healing, Psychotherapy, and the Philokalia by Andrew Louth and Chris Cook Chapter Sixteen: The Philokalia and Regulative Virtue Epistemology: A Look at Maximus the Confessor by Frederick D. Aquino Chapter Seventeen: Women in the Philokalia? by Sr. Nonna Verna Harrison Chapter Eighteen: Solitude, Silence, and Stillness: Light from the Palestinian Desert by John Chryssavgis Index