Standing in God's Holy Fire : The Byzantine Tradition

Name: Standing in God's Holy Fire : The Byzantine Tradition
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ISBN: 9781570753824

ISBN-10: 1570753822

ISBN-13: 9781570753824

Edition: 2001

Authors: John A. McGuckin

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List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Orbis Books
Publication date: 11/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Preface	p. 9
Prelude: Byzantium--A Short History	p. 13
The Beauty of God: The Byzantine Theological Aesthetic	p. 23
An Imageless Vision: Evagrios Pontike	p. 37
The Prayer of the Heart in the Desert Tradition	p. 55
God's Singers: The Byzantine Poetic Tradition	p. 76
Saints and Their Hagiographies in Byzantium	p. 94
The Luminous Silence of Hesychasm	p. 109
'Though There Stand Around You Tens of Thousands of Angels': The Symbolic World of Eastern Liturgical Prayer	p. 131
An Epilogue: The Spiritual Culture of Byzantine Christianity	p. 150
Notes	p. 155
Bibliography	p. 164
Short Glossary	p. 169
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