Preparing the Mind for Prayer: The Wanderer, hesychasm and theosis
This article reads the celebrated Old English lament The Wanderer within the context of the early monastic tradition of hesychasm, the harnessing of meandering thoughts prior to approaching the stillness of prayer, and the doctrine of theosis, the belief that humankind can share in the divine natur...
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Springer Verlag
2015
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