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Chargement... Things of the Hidden God: Journey to the Holy Mountain (2004)par Christopher Merrill
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. An American poet and professor, an active Episcopalian, encounters Greek Orthodoxy at Athos. Not sure at first about the future of his marriage and chosen profession, he finds his way and ends up embracing both. He realizes that monasticism and marriage are alike in requiring discipline and commitment. ( ) In despair and out of a longing to end his spiritual desolation, Merrill became one of a handful of visitors permitted entry to Mount Athos that for more than a thousand years has been a land apart. Merrill's journal of self-discovery explores the land and the more than 20 Eastern orthodox monasteries of Mount Athos. This is a record of the encounter of the poet, Christopher Merritt, with himself, while on several pilgrimages to Mt. Athos in Greece. The Anglican Merrill brushes up against Eastern Orthodoxy's deep sipiritual life as well as its scruples against women and non-Orthodox. Merrill is a fine writer, and I felt I journeyed with him over the very hilly landscape, by locked monasteries, and experiencing the liturgy sometimes from afar, and then up close. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Centred around three journeys to Mount Athos, one of the most important places in Orthodox Christianity, this is both a beautifully nuanced travel book and a journey of self-discovery in a world beset by violence and fear. Mount Athos is the spiritual home of the Eastern Orthodox Church, and for more than ten centuries this monastic community in northern Greece has been a centre for contemplative life, a staging ground for mystical visions and teachings, and a watch tower for Byzantium. A world unto itself, which has existed almost unchanged since medieval times, the theocratic state of Athos is a spiritual haven which stands in dramatic counterpoint to the contemporary world. Even time is calculated differently here - Athos rejects the Julian calendar and clocks are reset every day to Byzantine time - midnight falls at sunset. Christopher Merrill travelled to Mount Athos in search of spiritual renewal and a vision of eternity. At this unique intersection of modernity and Biblical tradition he discovered not only the enduring value of faith but also how much Athos has to teach us about the contemplative life, and found that eternity is located in the here and now. Journey to the Holy Mountain is a book rooted in spiritual crisis, which explores a route to salvation hitherto undocumented in a mainstream Western context. Out of spiritual desolation Merrill came to a deepening sense of the religious life, learning to recognize what have been described as 'the distinctive challenges and calls' of each monastic hour. The world of Mount Athos is closely guarded against intrusion by monk-policemen: no women, or even female animals, are allowed on Athos and the number of visitors is severely restricted. Christopher Merill describes, in vivid scenes and stories, the daily life ritual and scenery of a place which most will never be able to visit. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)271.81949565Religions History, geographic treatment, biography of Christianity Religious Congregations and Orders in Church history Non-Roman Catholic Male Orders Eastern Orthodox Greece monasticism Mount AthosClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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