Letters of Gregory AkindynosDumbarton Oaks
translated by Angela Constantinides Hero
ISBN: 0884021076
price: $50.00
An edition and translation of the letters of a
fourteenth-century scholar-monk who was a protagonist in
Byzantium's last major dogmatic dispute, the Hesychast
controversy. This religious movement spurred a revival of
Byzantine spirituality, inspired some of the finest works of
Eastern Orthodox mystical theology, and had serious
sociopolitical and cultural ramifications. The Akindynos letters,
addressed to the patriarch and other leading ecclesiastics, to
scholars, and to imperial officials, dwell exclusively on the
controversy and therefore constitute an indispensable source for
the study of Orthodox spirituality as well as the complex events
of the declining years of the Byzantine Empire.
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