RT Book
T1 A history of the Athonite Commonwealth: the spiritual and cultural diaspora of Mount Athos
A1 Speake, Graham 1946-
LA English
PP Cambridge New York Melbourne New Delhi Singapore
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2018
ED First published
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/163886120X
AB This book examines the part played by monks of Mount Athos in the diffusion of Orthodox monasticism throughout Eastern Europe and beyond. It focuses on the lives of outstanding holy men in the history of Orthodoxy who have been drawn to the Mountain, have absorbed the spirit of its wisdom and its prayer, and have returned to the outside world, inspired to spread the results of their labours and learning. In a remarkable demonstration of what may be termed 'soft power' in action, these men have carried the image of Athos to all corners of the Balkan peninsula, to Ukraine, to the very far north of Russia, across Siberia and the Bering Strait into North America, and most recently (when traditional routes were closed to them by the curtain of communism) to the West. Their dynamic witness is the greatest gift of Athos to a world thirsting for spiritual guidance
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BX385.A8
SN 978-1-108-44432-3
SN 978-1-108-42586-5
SN 1-108-44432-6
SN 1-108-42586-0
K1 Orthodox Eastern monasticism and religious orders
K1 Orthodox Eastern monasteries : History
K1 Orthodox Eastern monasteries
K1 History
K1 Athos (Greece)
K1 Athos (Greece) : History
K1 Orthodox Eastern monasteries : History : Greece : Athos