Mount Athos and Russia, 1016-2016 / Nicholas Fennell and Graham Speake (eds).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fennell, Nicholas, editor.

Speake, Graham, 1946- editor.

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russians.

History.

Orthodox Eastern monasteries.

Orthodox Eastern monasticism and religious orders.

Relations.

Athos (Greece)--Relations--Russia--History.

Athos (Greece).

Russia--Relations--Greece--Athos--History.

Russia.

Greece--Athos.

Orthodox Eastern monasticism and religious orders--Greece--Athos--History.

Orthodox Eastern monasteries--Greece--Athos--History.

Russians--Greece--Athos--History.

International relations.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 186 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Peter Lang, 2018.

Summary:

This book is about the Russian contribution to monasticism on Mount Athos and the Athonite contribution to Russian spirituality and marks the millennium of the Russian presence on Mount Athos. Athos has been the spiritual heart of the Orthodox world for even longer and Russian pilgrims have congregated there throughout its history. Russian monks visiting Athos have returned to their homeland with the treasures of Athonite spirituality such as the practice of hesychasm in the sixteenth century, the Patristic anthology known as the Philokalia in the eighteenth century, and the spiritual classic The Way of a Pilgrim in the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century the Russian monastic population fluctuated wildly, but still they produced influential elders such as St Silouan and Fr Sophrony, and Athonite elders continue to exercise enormous influence on the revived Russian Orthodox Church to this day. The papers collected in this volume, first delivered as contributions to a conference held by the Friends of Mount Athos in February 2017 at Madingley Hall, Cambridge, span the breadth of the millennium.

Contents:

Introduction / Nicholas Fennell and Graham Speake

The first Russian monks on Mount Athos / Sergey Shumilo

Russian pilgrimage to Mount Athos in the light of pilgrims' tales / Rene Gothoni

St Nil Sorsky: a hesychast bridge between Mount Athos and Russia / Kallistos Ware

The Slav philokalia and the way of a pilgrim / Andrew Louth

St Panteleimonos Monastery and its sixth abbot / Nicholas Fennell

St Silouan of Athos and Fr Sophrony / Nikolai Sakharov

The impact of the Athonite elders on Russian orthodoxy in the twenty-first century / Iriney Pikovskiy.

Notes:

The papers collected in this volume were first delivered at a conference held by the Friends of Mount Athos in February 2017 at Madingley Hall, Cambridge.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781787078802

1787078809

OCLC:

1040244809

Publisher Number:

99980878094