STILLNESS AS A MEANS TO ATTAIN TO THE GODLY PASSION OF LOVE

Authors

  • Zacharias ZACHAROU Very Reverend PhD, Archimandrite and Spiritual Father at the Holy Patriarchal and Stavropegic Monastery of Saint John, Essex, United Kingdom; disciple of Saint Sophrony (Sakharov) the Athonite. Email: grammateia.monastery.essex@gmail.com.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbto.2022.2.13

Keywords:

St. Silouan the Athonite, St. Sophrony (Sakharov), ascetic labor, stillness, hesychia, hesychasm, spiritual perfection, mental prayer, prayer of the heart, divine likeness, contemplation and vision of God, spiritual pleasure

Abstract

This paper explores the role of mental prayer in achieving the image and likeness of God and renouncing worldly passions, bringing hesychastic theory into conversation with the life and outward conditions of modern man.

References

Primary Sources

St. Gregory Palamas. Homilies. Translated by Christopher Veniamin. Dalton: Mount Thabor Publishing, 2014.

St. John Climacus. The Ladder of Divine Ascent. Boston, MA: Holy Transfiguration Monastery, 2012.

The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection. Translated by Benedicta Ward. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1984.

Secondary Literature

Sakharov, Archimandrite Sophrony. Saint Silouan the Athonite. Translated by Rosemary Edmonds. Tolleshunt Knights, Essex: Stavropegic Monastery of St John the Baptist, 1991.

SUBBTO, Volume 67 (LXVII), No. 2, December 2022

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Published

2023-03-25

How to Cite

ZACHAROU, Z. . (2023). STILLNESS AS A MEANS TO ATTAIN TO THE GODLY PASSION OF LOVE. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Theologia Orthodoxa, 67(2), 355–361. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbto.2022.2.13

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Volume 67, No. 2, December 2022

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