By Christopher C.H. Cook
The Philokalia, a set of religious texts via fathers of the jap Church spanning the fourth to the 15th centuries, used to be first released in Venice in 1782. major in bringing a couple of renaissance of Orthodox spirituality considering then, it indicates deep mental in addition to religious wisdom. The Philokalia and the internal existence seriously examines the character of psychological and religious future health as understood within the Philokalia. It identifies the passions as 'hostile pleasures', with a seductive and addictive caliber, that are unsafe to human overall healthiness, and explores the treatments for the passions that the Philokalia prescribes. just like the Philokalia, modern psychotherapies search to interpret human strategies and repair healthiness, even if the 'talking treatment' of secular psychotherapy contrasts considerably with the 'praying treatment' of the Philokalia.This e-book is for all who're drawn to spirituality, theology and the lifetime of prayer, in addition to scholars of the Philokalia. it's also for clinicians, counselors and psychotherapists, in particular those that desire to discover the connection among mental and non secular health.
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There is no doubt that this glossary provides helpful clarification for the reader who is new to the Philokalia and its world of thought, and that there is a terminology with which a reader gradually becomes familiar when reading and re-reading the Philokalia. However, greater familiarity begins to suggest that the appearance of consistency is almost as much confusing as it is helpful. 3 Again, the helpful analysis of the process of temptation4 refers to various sources, both from within the Philokalia itself and also John Climacus’s Ladder of Divine Ascent, but careful study of these sources shows a heterogeneity of understandings, albeit with some core terms (such as “provocation” or “assent”) which are used more or less consistently.
It would not have been possible to undertake this work without their support. I am very grateful to Kallistos Ware and to Renos Papadopoulos for their helpful comments on the PhD dissertation which became the basis for this book. I am grateful also to Andrew Powell for his comments on an early draft of the chapter on psychotherapy. I am grateful to Liturgical Press for allowing me to quote material from The Sayings of the Desert Fathers, translated by Benedicta Ward: Copyright Sister Benedicta, 1975.
I considered my own walks across these beaches and the way in which one’s attention is divided between an intended destination across the beach and the immediate task of finding a firm footing for one’s next step. It is easy to go astray from the former goal because of the necessity of the latter task. Rocks on the beach, like thoughts in the mind, are necessary as a basis for moving forward, but can easily also lead away from the place to which one intended to travel. But the need to find a firm footing does not invalidate the destination or refute the evidence of the eyes.
