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Author: William Capitan Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 198451217X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 162
Book Description
Alex, a first-generation Greek American struggles with conflicts between his Greek heritage and the secular world. He meets Pan, a Greek American comfortable with his heritage. Despite differences, they bond and travel to Mt. Athos. Alex vainly seeks material gain. Pan secretly seeks a miracle for his terminal illness. On the way, chance encounters, such as meeting fortune-teller Despina of astounding powers, open Alex to realities unknowable in his intellectuality. In a monastery, both men experience unfathomable mystery in the liturgy and ask a priest, a physicist, and a psychiatrist on their own spiritual quests to help reconcile their clash of ordinary experience against religious experience, the meaning of religious ritual, and the apparent clash of Holy Scripture with common sense. Both men return home wiser. Pan has a brief episode of new health only to lose it and eventually die. Alex contemplates the death of his friend in the light of their experience on Mt. Athos, and resolves his conflicts in healing faith. The story challenges secular emptiness and the barriers to faith among the unchurched. The action is experienced existentially, making the content, though philosophical at times, accessible.
Author: William Capitan Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 198451217X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 162
Book Description
Alex, a first-generation Greek American struggles with conflicts between his Greek heritage and the secular world. He meets Pan, a Greek American comfortable with his heritage. Despite differences, they bond and travel to Mt. Athos. Alex vainly seeks material gain. Pan secretly seeks a miracle for his terminal illness. On the way, chance encounters, such as meeting fortune-teller Despina of astounding powers, open Alex to realities unknowable in his intellectuality. In a monastery, both men experience unfathomable mystery in the liturgy and ask a priest, a physicist, and a psychiatrist on their own spiritual quests to help reconcile their clash of ordinary experience against religious experience, the meaning of religious ritual, and the apparent clash of Holy Scripture with common sense. Both men return home wiser. Pan has a brief episode of new health only to lose it and eventually die. Alex contemplates the death of his friend in the light of their experience on Mt. Athos, and resolves his conflicts in healing faith. The story challenges secular emptiness and the barriers to faith among the unchurched. The action is experienced existentially, making the content, though philosophical at times, accessible.
Author: Sotiris Kadas Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 206
Book Description
From legend to history; Monasticism on Mount Athos; Mount Athos today; The government of Mount Athos; The life of the monks on Athos; Work; Food; Karyes - the Protaton; Great Lavra; The monastery of Vatopedi; The monastery of Iveron; The monastery of Chelandari; The monastery of Dionysiou; The monastery of Koutloumousiou; The monastery of Pantokrator; The monastery of Xeropotamou; The monastery of Zographou; The monastery of Docheiariou; The monastery of Karakalou; The monastery of Philotheou; The monastery of Simonopetra; The monastery of St Paul; The monastery of Stavronikita; The monastery of Xenophontos; The monastery of Gregoriou; The monastery of Esphigmenou; The monastery of St Panteleimon; The monastery of Kastamonitou; The art of Mount Athos; Architecture; Sculpture; Painting; Monumental art; Portable icons; Illuminated manuscripts; Miniature art; Vestments and gold - embroidered fabrics; Other treasures; Epilogue; Glossary.
Author: Peter Howorth Publisher: ISBN: 9782503589114 Category : Languages : en Pages : 304
Book Description
An affectionate testament to Mount Athos, the Holy Mountain, after 30 years of activity of the Friends of Mount Athos00Mount Athos, the home of Orthodox spirituality and monasticism, has been in existence for at least 1200 years. Home to over 2,000 monks, in twenty glorious monasteries filled with treasures, the peninsular is undergoing a transformation and renewal of faith.00In 1956 there was a proposal to build hotels on Mount Athos. Today it hosts up to 1,000 pilgrims every day! Why? This book will help explain this extraordinary place, the current resurgence, the growing population of monks, the sense of purpose, the love and affection that are so much part of the environment.00This wonderful story, with a preface by HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, is told through the recollections of the Friends of Mount Athos, an organisation that has, for thirty years, provided support for the institutions, landscape and people. Here are the stories of enchantment from over forty people of different nationalities, customs and beliefs.00In addition to the text, there are a collection of special photographs and maps.00Peter Howorth and Chris Thomas are long time members of the Friends of Mount Athos and veterans of multiple path-clearing pilgrimages to the Holy Mountain which is how they met. Despite living on opposite sides of the planet, their mutual passion for the planet, geography, pilgrimage and of course Mount Athos has underpinned their collaboration.
Author: Graham Speake Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300093535 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 314
Book Description
Mount Athos, a spectacularly beautiful rocky peninsula on the coast of Greece has been a monastic preserve since the ninth century. This richly illustrated book tells the entire story of Athos, the Holy Mountain, from the first anchorite monks who lived in caves and huts through centuries of political and religious controversy to the thriving monastic communities of today.
Author: William Capitan
Author: William Capitan
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