The Philokalia Vol 1: The Complete Text; Compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain & St. Markarios of Corinth (Philokalia Vol. I) - Softcover

Palmer, G.E.H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571130135 ISBN 13: 9780571130139

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 1983

Inhaltsangabe

The Philokalia Vol 1 - here translated and edited by G. E. H. Palmer - is the most influential book besides the bible in the recent history of the Orthodox church.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Gerald Eustace Howell Palmer (1904-84) studied at Oxford and was the MP for Winchester from 1935 until 1945. He collaborated in many translations, including The Philokalia.

The Most Reverend Kallistos (Ware), Metropolitan of Diokleia was born in England in 1934 and studied at Oxford. He embraced the Orthodox faith in 1954 and was ordained in 1966, in the same year he became a lecturer at Oxford. He was appointed to a Fellowship at Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1979 and was consecrated as auxiliary bishop in 1982. He retired in 2001 and was elevated to Metropolitan in 2007. He is the author of The Orthodox Church and The Orthodox Way.

Philip Sherrard (1922-1995) was educated at Cambridge and lectured at Kings College, London and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies from 1970 to 1977. He translated the works of George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis, making their work available to the English-speaking world. He was baptised into the Orthodox Church in 1956.

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The Philokalia is a collection of texts written between the fourth and fifteenth centuries by spiritual master of the Orthodox Christian tradition. First published in Greek in 1782, translated into Salvonic and later into Russian, The Philokalia has exercised an influence far greater than that of any book other than the Bible in the recent history of the Orthodox Church.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1983
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0571130135
• ISBN 13: 9780571130139
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
• Herausgeber: Palmer G.E.H., Ware The Rev. Kallistos Timothy, Sherrard Philip
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