Orthodox Monasticism Past and Present

- Table of Contents (page 5)
- Editorial Foreword (page 9)
- PART ONE: ANCIENT CHRISTIAN ASCETICAL THEOLOGY (page 13)
- Embodying Tradition, Seeking Transformation: Glimpsing Asceticism(s) in the New Testament (Karri L. Whipple) (page 15)
- Monasticism in the Christian East: an Introduction (J. A. McGuckin) (page 33)
- 'Taking Upon the Likeness of Angels': Asceticism as the Angelical Life in Aphrahat's Demonstrations (Sujit T. Thomas) (page 47)
- The Recitation of the Psalms among Early Christian Ascetics (Jill Gather) (page 55)
- The Virgins Sing Orthodoxy: Ephrem's Choirs & the dissemination of Nicene Thought in Syria (Robert Najdek) (page 79)
- The Power to Curse and the Power to Save: The Monk, the Prophet & the story of Elisha's curse of the She Bears (Mary Julia Jett) (page 95)
- Rhetoric and the Monastic Rule in Byzantium: From Anchoritism to Coenobitism (Julia Khan) (page 109)
- The Devil in the Desert (Kevin McKeown) (page 123)
- An Ancient Ascetical Drama of Woman and the Dragon: Perpetua's Rise into the Animus-World (Jeff Pettis) (page 139)
- The Pure 'Eye of her Soul': The Asceticism of the Deaconess Olympias as Reflected in the Writings of the Fathers (V. K. McCarty) (page 153)
- Evagrius Ponticus, the Origenian Ascetic (and not the Origenistic 'Heretic') (Ilaria L. E. Ramelli) (page 171)
- Asceticism Through the Lens of Anthropology: The Greek Fathers from Justin to Gregory Nazianzen on the Soul and the Holy Spirit (Vicki Petrakis) (page 237)
- St. Shenoute of Atripe and His Monastic Order (A. Bibawy) (page 253)
- Hagiographic Traditions of Ethiopian Monasticism (Atsede Maryam Elegba) (page 273)
- The Evolution of Fundamental Christological elements in the works of St. Cyril of Alexandria (Vasily Novikov) (page 303)
- Humanity's Reconciliation with the Divine through the Mystery of the Incarnation of the Word in the Thought of St. Isidore of Pelusium & St. Cyril of Alexandria (Eirini Artemi) (page 325)
- The Monk as Mourner: St. Isaac the Syrian & Monastic Identity in the 7th c. & Beyond (Hannah Hunt) (page 343)
- The Dying Church: Hierarchy as Self-Sacrifice in Pseudo-Dionysius (Kate McCray) (page 355)
- Plotinus and the Essence - Energeia Distinction: A Neoplationic Influence on Dionysius Areopagita (Joshua Packwood) (page 369)
- Maximos and Neurobiology: A Neurotheological Investigation of Ascetism as Erosion of the Passions & the Gnomic Will (Luis Joshua Sales) (page 381)
- Converting the Use of Death: The Ascetic Theology of St Maximus the Confessor in Ad Thalassium 61 (Gregory Tucker) (page 391)
- The Monk Philosopher in Yahya ibn 'Adi (d. 974) and Severus ibn al-Muqaffa' (d. c. 987) (Zachary Ugolnik) (page 407)
- What is the 'Breath of God'? - Bibliographic Theology in Armenian History from Astvacashuntch to St. Grigor Narekatsi's The Book of Sadness (Anthony J. Elia) (page 423)
- A Royal Family: The Significance of Saint Sava and his Parents for the Establishment of Serbian Monasticism and the Serbian Church (Zivojin Jakovljevic) (page 435)
- The 15th century Typikon of Neilos Damilas for the Convent of the Mother of God on Venetian-Crete (Mary McCarthy) (page 445)
- PART TWO: MONASTIC REFLECTION AND MODERNITY (page 457)
- Contemporary Monasticism: Why join a monastery? (Metropolitan Jonah) (page 459)
- A Triptych of Contemporary Romanian Spiritual Elders (Macarie Dragoi) (page 467)
- The Beauty of Silence in Christian Monastic Tradition (Teodor Damian) (page 483)
- The 'Mystical Mundane' in Fr. Nikon of Karoulia's Letters to Gerald Palmer (Christopher D. L. Johnson) (page 497)
- Purifying the Heart in Order to See: Praxis and Perception in Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov (Tea Jankovic) (page 511)
- The Centrality of St. Isaac the Syrian's Ascetical Theology in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (Rico Monge) (page 517)
- Engaged Monasticism: Mother Maria Skobtsova and Twenty-First Century American Orthodox Monasticism (Peter M. Preble) (page 525)
- Psychic Crisis in Monastic Communities: The Ascetical Writings of Evagrius of Pontus in the Light of Modern Understandings (John L. Grillo) (page 535)
- Markets and Monasticiam: A Survey & Appraisal of Eastern Christian Monastic Enterprise (Dylan Pahman) (page 547)
- Spiritual Warfare and the Struggle for Apatheia (Theodore Grey Dedon) (page 575)
- The Concepts of Time as Applied to Monasticism & Asceticism (Nicholas Samaras) (page 585)
- Notes on the Contributors (page 595)