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Hesychasm and Sufism—A Comparison Between Jesus Prayer and Dhikr

Religions
The comparison between Hesychasm and Sufism focuses on their respective mystical practices: the Jesus Prayer in Hesychasm and Dhikr in Sufism. Both traditions emphasize withdrawing from worldly distractions to achieve spiritual purity and communion with ...
Eiji Hisamatsu
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Preparing the Mind for Prayer: The Wanderer, Hesychasm and Theosis [PDF]

Neophilologus, 2015
This article reads the celebrated Old English lament The Wanderer within the context of the early monastic tradition of hesychasm, the harnessing of meandering thoughts prior to approaching the stillness of prayer, and the doctrine of theosis, the belief that humankind can share in the divine nature of God through grace.
Francis Leneghan
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Breathing Divine Breath: on the Greco-Egyptian Sources of Hesychasm [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology, 2022
The genesis of Hesychasm is still quite unresolved. In this article, the assumption that its origins lie in late Greco-Egyptian Antiquity, in the eastern Mediterranean, and that Yoga contributed to it, remain in the background.
Ullrich Kleinhempel
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Is there an Orthodox anthropology? [PDF]

Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2022
The critical article states and briefly analyses the main problems related to Orthodox anthropology (a small section is devoted to particular points of anthropology in Eastern religions).
Dunaev Alexey
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Plotinus the antipalamite [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2022
The synod of Constantinople of 1351 discussed six questions and answers concerning the Palamite doctrine of energies. Nikephoros Gregoras was condemned at the gathering and subsequently defended his position in his History of the Romans, where ...
Lauritzen Frederick
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Ascetic Practices in Interfaith Dialogue

The Ecumenical Review, Volume 73, Issue 5, Page 804-820, December 2021., 2021
Abstract This article explores the fundamental theological and philosophical propositions on which ascetic teachings and mystical experiences within Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Jainism are based. In particular, it examines spirituality, purification, and psychophysical techniques, including bodily postures, breath control, and inner exploration ...
Nataliia Pavlyk
wiley   +1 more source

On the chanting space and hymns that were sung in it. Searching for chanting-architectural connections in the middle ages [PDF]

Muzikologija, 2017
The search for the unexplained interactions of domestic medieval liturgical music and sacred architecture of the Moravian style has not been the subject of interdisciplinary study so far.
Peno Vesna, Obradović Marija
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Russian Elders: Aesthetics of Good-Imaged Beauty

Дискурс, 2020
Introduction. The paper substantiates the application of aesthetic characteristics to the examination of the image of Russian elders. It is proposed to move away from the traditional understanding of aesthetics only as a philosophy of art and beauty and ...
D. Yu. Dorofeev
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Once Again about the Multifold Slavonic Translations and their Context: “On Prayer” by Evagrius of Pontus (CPG 2452)

Studia Ceranea, 2021
The article examines the history of the Slavic translations of the work On Prayer by Evagrios (Evagrius) of Pontus (CPG 2452). The witnesses are more than 35 – in manuscripts of Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian and Moldavian-Wallachian provenance, from the ...
Anissava Miltenova
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Ethics and ontology in Hesychasm and Irfan [PDF]

Kom: Časopis Za Religijske Nauke, 2013
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