“The writings of the great fifteenth-century Russian spiritual master Nil Sorsky form a high peak in a tragic but also verdant and seminal period in the history of Byzantine Christendom. [...]Battered from both West and East ‘for their sins,’ [...]Byzantine Christians still found within themselves the creative impulses to initiate a spiritual, artistic, and even political revival, at the forefront of which, along with some remarkable rulers, stood farsighted patriarchs, metropolitans, and learned monks. The inspiration for this renewal, as well as the religious and cultural will to resist the intruders, came, in great part, from a spiritual-ascetic movement known as hesychasm.” —“Preface”
CONTENTS
Preface Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Tradition (Predanie) 2. The Monastic Rule (Ustav) 3. The Letters The Last Will and Testament Notes to the Introduction Notes to the Text A Selected Bibliography Index
Item Number: BKPP696 Publication data: New York, NY/Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2003 Format: softcover Number of pages: x + 164 Dimensions (l × w × h): 22.8 cm × 15.3 cm × 1.1 cm ISBN: 0‒8091‒3810-7
