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Relation of classical metanoia to modern thought
The
purpose of this study, then, is not simply to introduce valuable texts, but to
explore the meanings that occur, often many times, and expressed in many ways,
not only in texts now being translated into English, but in early texts that
have already been made available. I
also hope to show, where possible, how these early meanings link with
and
very often answer our own questions about ourselves and our world, and how
they relate to modern thought on this same subject.
1. A factor which has sometimes, somewhat naively, led to the conviction in theological circles that if an unwritten tradition cannot be documented it cannot be proved and is therefore 'unreal'. Scientific anthropology, on the other hand, has long been forced to study unwritten traditions since in many cultures key traditions have little or no written form. Hence in our studies we have been forced to learn certain lessons from the latter discipline.
2. A later and augmented version of this
Philokalia, the Russian
Dobrotolubiye,
was edited by the same Saint Theophan to whom we have already referred, and
its publication arranged by the Moscow house of the great Russian monastery
of Saint Panteleimon, whose 'mother house' is on Mount Athos.
3. See: Thomas Merton --
The Wisdom of
the Desert: Sheldon Press, London, 1961.
4. Boris Mouravieff's
Gnosis, study and
commentaries on the Esoteric tradition of Eastern Orthodoxy. Praxis
Institute Press, (see below)
5. Himself a student first of C. G.. Jung and then of Ouspensky.
6. According to Kallistos Ware, one of the translators of the Greek
Philokalia
into English,
the structure of
this work is intentionally fragmentary, having been put together with a
technique common to the early fathers and today known to scholars as the
'scatter technique', a method used to prevent certain ideas being linked
together before they were properly understood.
7. Including the little book about the Jesus Prayer,
'the
Way of the Pilgrim.'
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