St Symeon the New Theologian and Orthodox Tradition

by Hilarion Alfeyev

Overview

The teachings of St Symeon (949-1022) created much controversy in Byzantium and led to his short-lived exile to Asia Minor in 1009. This book examines St Symeon from within the Byzantine mystical tradition, looking at him as both a highly personal and a very traditional ecclesiastical writer. For the first time in modern scholarship, this study explores St Symeon's attitude to Scripture and to church worship; his relations with his spiritual father, Symeon the Studite; and the Studite tradition in general.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198270096
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/17/2000
Series:	Oxford Early Christian Studies
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Hilarion Alfeyev is a Russian scholar in Byzantine and Syriac Patristics.

Editorial Reviews

"...this work is a major contribution to our understanding of the religious culture of the Middle Byzantine centuries."—Religious Studies Review

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