“For the modern reader Symeon is[...]truly the new theologian, ‘the first Eastern Christian mystic who articulated in such personal disclosures his intimate, mystical experiences for a reading public.’ Doubtless, for his disciples and successors in the Greek tradition, his newness lay rather in the fact that he was a theogian, like the Evangelist and Gregory Nazianzus, who had appeared in their own times as ‘a great spiritual renovator, a restorer of the lost tradition of mystical life,’ and a contemporary witness to the Gospel. Yet the modern reader, particularly one used to the spiritual and theological writings of the Greek fathers, must inevitably be struck by the overwhelming force with which he presents himself and dares to speak of his own experiences in the first person singular.” —“Introduction”
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION St Symeon’s Life and Times The Life of our holy Father, Symeon the New Theologian, Priest and abbot of the Monastery of St Mamas Charismatic vs. Institutional: On Confession and the Role of Experience The Shape of St Symeon’s Thought The Ascetic Life: Renunciation, the Struggle for the Virtues, and Dispassion The Vision of God: St Symeon the Mystic The Glory A Personal and Sacramental Experience The Theologian Of the Holy Trinity Of Participation in the Life of the Trinity Of the Word Made Flesh Of the Image of God in Man: Fall and Restoration For Future Generations: St. Symeon the Contributer Appendix: Letter on Confession Bibliography Index of Scriptural References Index
Item Number: BKV503 Publication data: Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1997 Format: softcover Number of pages: 220 Dimensions (l × w × h): 18.4 cm × 12.7 cm × 1.6 cm ISBN: 0‒88141‒144‒2
