TY  - BOOK
AU  - Graham Speake
AU  - Kallistos Ware
PY  - 2015
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783035306934
TI  - Spiritual Guidance on Mount Athos
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0353-0693-4
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1053420
N2  - Spiritual guidance is the serious business of Mount Athos, the principal service that the Fathers offer to each other and to the world. Athonites have been purveyors of spiritual guidance for more than a thousand years in a tradition that goes back to the fourth-century desert fathers. The recent monastic renewal on the Mountain is testimony to the Fathers’ continuing power to attract disciples and pilgrims to listen to what they have to say. The papers included in this volume examine some of the many aspects of this venerable tradition, as it has developed on Mount Athos, and as it has devolved upon monks and nuns, spiritual fathers and confessors, lay men and women, in other parts of Greece and in the world. Most of the papers were originally delivered at a conference convened by the Friends of Mount Athos at Madingley Hall, Cambridge, in 2013.
KW  - Monastery, Pilgrimage, Religious tradition, Desert father
LA  - English
ER  -