The Inner KingdomThis work is a revised and expanded version of a book that has appeared in several languages. It focuses on themes central to Eastern Christian worship and spiritual life. The first three chapters provide insights on death, bereavement and resurrection in Christ; and repentance. Chapters four and five invite the reader into the world of desert ascetics and hesychast monks. Combining schoarly rigor with practical counsels on prayer, Bishop Ware makes the wealth of this traditonal accessible to today's Christians. The next three chapters concern personal vocation, martyrdom, spiritual fatherhood and the strange path of the fool for Christ's sake. There follows brief essays on the theology of time and the spiritual purposes of higher education. The final chapters is a challenging discussion of Origen and SS Gregory of Nyssa, Isaac the Syrian and Silouan the Athonite, and in coversation with them asks, dare we hope for the salvation of all. |
Contents
My Journey to | 1 |
The Mystery of Death and Resurrection | 25 |
The Orthodox Experience of Repentance | 43 |
The Theology of Worship | 63 |
A Sense of Wonder | 69 |
The Ideal of Continual Prayer | 75 |
The Meaning of Hesychia | 89 |
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Abba alphabetical collection Anglican apocatastasis Archimandrite ascetic Barsanuphius bishop blessing body cell century Christian East Cistercian communion Confession continual prayer death Desert Fathers disciple divine Divine Liturgy eternity expression folly fool in Christ freedom gift God's grace Greek Gregory of Nyssa healing heart heaven hell hermit hesychast hesychia holy fool Homily human icon inner insists Isaac the Syrian Jesus Prayer John Climacus Kingdom Krueger Liturgy living London Lord Lossky martyr martyrdom means Messalians mind monastery monastic monk Mount Athos never Origen Orthodox Church outward Oxford person Philokalia priest repentance resurrection Russian Rydén sacrament saints salvation sense Seraphim of Sarov silence Silouan sins Sobornost soul speak spiritual father spiritual guide St Antony St Gregory St Isaac St Seraphim St Symeon St Theophan starets startsi suffering tears Theology Theophan the Recluse things tradition Transfiguration true universal Vladimir Lossky vocation Ward Wensinck worship