Book of Mystical Chapters : Meditations on the Souls Ascent, from the Desert Fathers and Other Early Christian Contemplatives
by JOHN ANTHONY MCGUCKIN
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Random House Inc, July 2003. Paper Back. New. A beautiful instruction. Simple, and at the same time difficult, each page a poetry to live through. Every line given (and subsequently written) by a desert father to his fellow monks with the intention of it being ''learned by heart and meditated on over and over again for a day or even a week until the paragraph [has] broken like a fruit on the tongue... and revealed its inner flavor to the searching mind.'' Patristic scholar John McGuckin has edited and translated these sayings into three ''centuries,'' or books - Praktikos, Theoretikos and Gnostikos - following the tradition of monastic spiritual ascent. Praktikos involves the training of the soul to understand its own need for a disciplined inner attention - a holy psychology that maps the self to better understand God's mysterious presence there. Theoretikos serves to resolve the difficulties which Praktikos reveals. A place to struggle and work things out. Gnostikos is traditionally the most controversial chapter (because of its highly personal nature, i.e. the way a particular soul experiences God), focusing on the state of knowing or understanding God Himself. While this book has a very particular structure, its truth transcends intent, igniting in any careful reader the quiet, consuming love of God.
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John Anthony McGuckin is a Professor of Early Church History at Union Theological Seminary in New York City and a priest of the Orthodox Church. Born in Newcastle, England, he is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the author of nine books, including Standing in God's Holy Fire: The Byzantine Tradition and At the Lighting of the Lamps: Hymns of the Ancient Church.
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- Eighth Day Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1445
- Title
- Book of Mystical Chapters : Meditations on the Souls Ascent, from the Desert Fathers and Other Early Christian Contemplatives
- Author
- JOHN ANTHONY MCGUCKIN
- Format/Binding
- Paper Back
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1590300076
- ISBN 13
- 9781590300077
- Publisher
- Random House Inc
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- July 2003
- Keywords
- patristics, praktikos, mysticism, desert fathers, meditations, contemplation
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