Romania: Its Hesychast Tradition and Culture

Romania: Its Hesychast Tradition and Culture
A fairly scarce cultural analysis - OCLC lists only 9 copies. CONTENTS: Author's Foreword to the English Edition; Introduction; Guide to Romanian Pronunciation; Chronology; Abbreviations Used in the Footnotes; THE ORIGINS OF MONASTIC LIFE IN ROMANIA AND ITS GROWTH TO THE 14TH CENTURY: Historical Context of Christianity in Dacia in the First Millennium; Monastic Life in Romania Up to the 14th Century; THE DAWN OF HESYCHASM IN THE ROMANIAN COUNTRIES IN THE 14TH CENTURY: political and Ecclesiastical Factors; Ties with Monasteries South of the Danube; St. Nicodemus of Tismana: Reorganizer of Romanian Monasticism; THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MONASTIC AND HESYCHASTIC LIFEIN THE ROMANIAN COUNTRIES UP TO THE HESYCHASTIC RENEWAL OF THE 18TH CENTURY: Monasteries, Sketes, and Hermitages from the 14th-1`8th Centuries; The Romanian Countries and the Holy Places of the East; The 'Teachings of Neagoe Basarab to His Son Theodosius'; THE HESYCHAST RENEWAL OF THE 18TH CENTURY: Monastic Life in Russia and in the Romanian Countries before the Spiritual Renewal of the 18th Century; Starets Basil of Poiana Marului; Starets Paisius Velichkovsky; 'PAISIANISM' IN THE ROMANIAN COUNTRIES: The Monastery of Neamt after the Death of Starets Paisius; Metropolitan Benjamin Costachi; Pasian Influence in the other Moldavian Monasteries; Disciples of Starets Paisius in the Monasteries of Cernica and Caldarusani; ROMANIAN HESYCHASM IN THE 20TH CENTURY: The Philocalic Renewal; Poetry of Hesychastic Inspiration; Monasticism; Epilogue: The Face of Today; APPENDICES: Rule for the Holy Prayer of the Heart; Acathist to the Mother of God of the Burning Bush.Keywords: TRAVEL ROMANIA ROMANIAN CULTURE TRADITION