Mount Athos the Sacred Bridge

The Spirituality of the Holy Mountain

Edited by Dimitri Conomos and Graham Speake

Most of the papers included in this volume were first presented at the first conference convened by the Friends of Mount Athos at Madingley Hall, Cambridge, in 2003. The aims of the conference were to draw attention to the historic importance, the spirituality, and the religious legacy of the Holy Mountain and to shed light on the contribution made by Athonite monasticism not only to worldwide Orthodoxy but also to Christianity at large. Many of the papers focus on particular individuals who from the fourteenth century to the twentieth have exemplified the spiritual traditions of Athos and whose memory as spiritual fathers, confessors, and ascetics continues to inspire their successors today.

Contributors include: Bishop Nikolaos Hatzinikolaou, Professor Andrew Louth, Bishop Kallistos Ware, Sister Magdalen, Fr Nicholas Sakharov, Abbot Ephraim of Vatopedi, Abbot Elisaios of Simonopetra, and Fr Alexander Golitzin.

Dimitri Conomos holds a doctorate in musicology from Oxford University and has published on Byzantine and Slavonic chant, hymnody, Orthodoxy, and the environment and mythology.

Graham Speake holds degrees in classics from both Cambridge and Oxford. He is founder and Secretary of the Friends of Mount Athos and author of Mount Athos: Renewal in Paradise (2002).

Published by Peter Lang AG (Bern) 250pp. paperback ISBN 3 03910 064 5

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