The purpose of this paper is to provide a systematic comparison of two phenomena: hesychasm and culture. For this purpose, a common language should be developed.
Хоружий, Сергей
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Two methods of contemplation: Yoga and hesychast prayer: An exercise in comparative religion [PDF]
Using Arvind Sharmas's comparative method of reciprocal illumination, this essay examines two contemplative methods, the Hindu yogic, as de fined in Patafijali's Yoga-sutra, and the hesychast, as developed primarily within the Eastern Christian monastic ...
Bakić-Hayden Milica
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Palamas and Florensky: The Metaphysics of the Heart in Patristic and Russian Philosophical Tradition [PDF]
Тhis paper focuses on the philosophical issue known as the metaphysics of the heart within Orthodox Christianity – both Russian and Byzantie versions. Russian religious thought is based on patristic tradition.
Kroczak, Justyna
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Grzegorz Palamas wobec kontrowersji hezychastycznej
This paper is an attempt of characteristics concerning theological phenomena called Hesychast Controversy. The presentation includes analysis of history of hesychasm and important facts from Gregory Palamas biography. The main source for research on that
Justyna Kroczak
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Aisthetics of Religion and embodied spiritual perception: hermeneutic approaches in Hesychasm, Christian Platonism, and Aesthetics of Idealism, to ‘divine light’ and ‘mystical flight’ [PDF]
In this essay I show developments in Aisthetics of Religion, a new discipline of Science of Religion, towards the inclusion of the body, and the senses, departing from an approach of naturalistic reductionism towards the integration of the category or ...
Ullrich Kleinhempel
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ANTHROPOCENTRIC INTENTION OF HESYCHAST AND SUFISTIC PRACTICES OF FREEDOM PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
The Purpose is to analyse problems of individual freedom in mystical currents of Hesychasm and Sufism comprehensively in the territory of Ukraine. It deals with issues of Hesychasm and Sufism origin, mystical practices features and their overflowing ...
Yurii Y. Semchuk
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St. Symeon the New Theologian and Western Dissident Movements [PDF]
The trial at Orleans in 1022 of a group of aristocratic clergy, who included the confessor of Queen Constance of France, and their followers on the charge of heresy is the most fully reported among the group of heresy trials which were conducted in the
Hamilton, Bernard, Hamilton, Janet
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What's in God's name: literary forerunners and philosophical allies of the Imiaslavie-debate [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to explore the interaction between a tradition that belongs originally to the realm of orthodox contemplative monasticism (i.e., hesychasm) and nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russian intellectuals.
Grillaert, Nel
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Yoga and the Jesus Prayer—A Comparison between aṣtānga yoga in the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali and the Psycho-Physical Method of Hesychasm [PDF]
The present article will try to show differences and similarities in description about the ascetic teaching and mystical experience of two totally different spiritual traditions, i.e.
Hisamatsu, Eiji, Pattni, Ramesh
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