The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality - Softcover

Markides, Kyriacos C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385500920 ISBN 13: 9780385500920

Verlag: The Crown Publishing Group, 2002

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Book by Markides Kyriacos C

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In a collection of reflections, dialogues, history, and travelogue, an authority in Christian mysticism examines the spiritual traditions, ritual, and practice of Greek Orthodoxy and the role of Orthodox spirituality in a complex, modern world. Reprint.

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expert in Christian mysticism travels to a monastery high in the Trodos Mountains of Cyprus and offers a fascinating look at the Greek Orthodox approach to spirituality that will appeal to readers of Carlos Castaneda.

In an engaging combination of dialogues, reflections, conversations, history, and travel information, Kyriacos C. Markides continues the exploration of a spiritual tradition and practice little known in the West he began in Riding with the Lion. His earlier book took readers to the isolated peninsula of Mount Athos in northern Greece and into the group of ancient monasteries. There, in what might be called a “Christian Tibet,” two thousand monks and hermits practice the spiritual arts to attain a oneness with God. In his new book, Markides follows Father Maximos, one of Mount Athos’s monks, to the troubled island of Cyprus. As Father Maximos establishes churches, convents, and monasteries in this deeply divided land, Markides is a

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• Verlag: The Crown Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0385500920
• ISBN 13: 9780385500920
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272