Merton & Hesychasm The Prayer of the Heart &

This profound work introduces the West to Eastern Christian spirituality through the lens of Thomas Merton, as practiced from the time of the Desert Fathers. Contributors to this volume present the riches of Christian contemplative methods and experience dating back to their original Christian source.

The Fons Vitae Thomas Merton Series

Jonathan Montaldo and Gray Henry ix

Foreword: Merton and Hesychasm

Bernadette Dieker and Jonathan Montaldo

xi

PART I HESYCHASM: THE GIFT OF EASTERN CHRISTIANITY TO SPIRITUAL PRACTICE

1 How Do We Enter the Heart, and What Do We Find When We Enter?

Kallistos Ware

3

(14)

2 Silence in Prayer: The Meaning of Hesychia

Kallistos Ware

17

(24)

3 The Power of the Name: The Jesus Prayer in Orthodox Spirituality

Kallistos Ware

41

(34)

4 The Ladder of Divine Ascent: The Yoga of Hesychasm

James Cutsinger

75

(16)

5 A Sufic Perspective on Saint Seraphim of Sarov

Gray Henry

91

(12)

PART II THOMAS MERTON AND EASTERN CHRISTIANITY

1 The Worship of the Whole Creation: Merton and the Eastern Fathers

A.M. Allchin

103

(18)

2 Our Lives, a Powerful Pentecost Merton's Meeting with Russian Christianity

A.M. Allchin

121

(20)

3 Thomas Merton and the Christian East

John Eudes Bamberger

141

(12)

4 Thomas Merton and Byzantine Spirituality

M. Basil Pennington

153

(16)

5 Hesychasm

Patrick F. O'Connell

169

(4)

6 Heart

Patrick F. O'Connell

173

(2)

7 Bread in the Wilderness: The Monastic Ideal in Thomas Merton and Paul Evdokimov

Rowan Williams

175

(22)

8 Theophan the Recluse's Teaching on Prayer in Thomas Merton's Marginalia Throughout The Art of Prayer: An Orthodox Anthology

Edited by Jonathan Montaldo

197

(28)

9 Thomas Merton and the Silence of the Icons

Jim Forest

225

(10)

10 Merton and "Hagia Sophia" (Holy Wisdom)

Susan McCaslin

235

(20)

11 Hagia Sophia

Thomas Merton

255

(8)

PART III HESYCHASM IN THE WRITING OF THOMAS MERTON

1 The Climate of Monastic Prayer

Thomas Merton

263

(8)

2 The Wisdom of the Desert

Thomas Merton

271

(16)

3 The Spiritual Father in the Desert Tradition

Thomas Merton

287

(24)

4 Mount Athos

Thomas Merton

311

(12)

5 The Spirituality of Sinai: Saint John of the Ladder

Thomas Merton

323

(10)

6 Russian Mystics

Thomas Merton

333

(10)

7 The Pasternak Affair

Thomas Merton

343

(54)

8 The Thomas Merton/Boris Pasternak Correspondence

Thomas Merton and Boris Pasternak

397

(12)

9 Lecture Notes on Ascetical and Mystical Theology: Table of Contents

Thomas Merton

409

(10)

10 The Prayer of the Heart and Natural Contemplation: A Foreword to Thomas Merton's Lecture Notes on St. Maximus

A.M. Allchin

419

(12)

11 Contemplation and the Cosmos: Chapter VIII of Thomas Merton's Lecture Notes on Theology and Mysticism

Edited by Jonathan Montaldo

431

(14)

12 Love for God and Mutual Charity: Thomas Merton's Lectures on Hesychasm to the Novices at the Abbey of Gethsemani

Transcribed and edited by Bernadette Dieker

445

(38)

13 Orthodoxy and the World

Thomas Merton 471

Appendix: The Role of Our Lady in the Hesychaste Prayer

Rama Coomaraswamy

483

(18)

Contributors

501

(4)

Acknowledgments

505

(4)

Dedication

509

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