Reception of Philokalia, the Meaning of Prayer, the Neptic Tradition in the Work of Metropolitan Kallistos Ware
2018
Abstrakt
This presentation concentrates on Metropolitan Kallistos's way of translating the Philokalic tradition into language accessible to the Christians living in current Western world. Themes like the relationship to the spiritual guide, watchfulness (nepsis), stillness (hesychia), and invocation of the name of Jesus are interpreted in this light.
It shows how Metropolitan Kallistos proposes to unite the life of work and of prayer, how to seek for Christ everywhere, and through that seeking and finding, making the secular sacred.