Mount Athos, notebooks 1974-2015.
Editions des Syrtes| N° d'inventaire | 25474 |
| Format | 12 x 20 |
| Détails | 302 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Geneva, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782940701070 |
This work brings together the notes taken by the author during thirteen stays on Mount Athos, a high place of Orthodox spirituality, where even today, twenty large monasteries and hundreds of hermitages faithfully maintain traditions that are more than a thousand years old.
The notes concerning the first two stays (1974 and 1978) take the form of a Journal; those concerning the following stays (from 1996 to 2015) have a freer form.
The author had the privilege of speaking with the greatest Athonite spiritual leaders of that time, living as hermits or in small hesychast communities (such as Saint Paissus, Saint Ephraim of Katunakia, or the ascetic companion and disciples of the great Joseph the Hesychast). He also met the great abbots who restored cenobitic life in several large monasteries (such as Father Ephraim of Philotheus, Father Aimilianos of Simonos Petra, Father George of Grigoriou or Father Basil of Stavronikita).
These Notebooks evoke the personalities of these great witnesses of Orthodox spirituality in the 20th century, and present teachings received from them. The author questioned them especially on the Jesus Prayer, for the practice of which Mount Athos constitutes a major reference. They provide on this subject a large number of personal testimonies and practical advice that make these Notebooks not only a travel story in an extraordinary "country", but a book of spirituality from which every reader can benefit.
Jean-Claude Larchet is a theologian and author of numerous works on Orthodox spirituality. He published Animals in Orthodox Spirituality (2018), The Theological Foundations of the Ecological Crisis (2018), Following the Fathers... The Life and Work of Father Georges Florovsky (2019), and A Little Theology for Times of Pandemic (2020) with Éditions des Syrtes.
This work brings together the notes taken by the author during thirteen stays on Mount Athos, a high place of Orthodox spirituality, where even today, twenty large monasteries and hundreds of hermitages faithfully maintain traditions that are more than a thousand years old.
The notes concerning the first two stays (1974 and 1978) take the form of a Journal; those concerning the following stays (from 1996 to 2015) have a freer form.
The author had the privilege of speaking with the greatest Athonite spiritual leaders of that time, living as hermits or in small hesychast communities (such as Saint Paissus, Saint Ephraim of Katunakia, or the ascetic companion and disciples of the great Joseph the Hesychast). He also met the great abbots who restored cenobitic life in several large monasteries (such as Father Ephraim of Philotheus, Father Aimilianos of Simonos Petra, Father George of Grigoriou or Father Basil of Stavronikita).
These Notebooks evoke the personalities of these great witnesses of Orthodox spirituality in the 20th century, and present teachings received from them. The author questioned them especially on the Jesus Prayer, for the practice of which Mount Athos constitutes a major reference. They provide on this subject a large number of personal testimonies and practical advice that make these Notebooks not only a travel story in an extraordinary "country", but a book of spirituality from which every reader can benefit.
Jean-Claude Larchet is a theologian and author of numerous works on Orthodox spirituality. He published Animals in Orthodox Spirituality (2018), The Theological Foundations of the Ecological Crisis (2018), Following the Fathers... The Life and Work of Father Georges Florovsky (2019), and A Little Theology for Times of Pandemic (2020) with Éditions des Syrtes.