The Inner Kingdom: The Collected Works (Kallistos Ware Works) - Hardcover

Ware, Kallistos

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0881412104 ISBN 13: 9780881412109

Publisher: St Vladimirs Seminary Pr, 2000

Synopsis

Includes index.

This is a revised and expanded version of a book that has appeared in French, Italian, and Greek. It focuses on themes central to Eastern Christian worship and spiritual life and serves as an introduction to the series of six volumes of Bishop Kallistos' collected works.

The opening chapter recounts the author's journey to Orthodoxy. The next two chapters provide profound and illuminating insights on death, bereavement and resurrection in Christ, and on repentance. Chapters four through seven invite us into the world of the desert ascetics and hesychast monks. Combining scholarly rigor with practical counsels on prayers, Bishop Kallistos makes the wealth of the Orthodox tradition accessible to today's Christians. The next three chapters concern personal vocation, martyrdom, spiritual guidance, and the strange path of the fool for Christ's sake. There follows a brief essay on time and eternity. The final chapter is a challenging discussion of Origen and Ss Gregory of Nyssa, Isaac the Syrian and Silouan the Athonite, and in conversation with them Bishop Kallistos asks, "Dare we hope for the salvation of all?"

A teacher at the University of Oxford who lectures around the world, Bishop Kallistos speaks equally to laypeople and specialists, on both timeless mysteries and urgent contemporary concerns.His thought combined depth and honesty with judicious wisdom and balance, expressed in a clear and direct style.

About this title

About the Author:

A teacher at the University of Oxford who lectures around the world, Bishop Kallistos speaks equally to laypeople and specialists, on both timeless mysteries and urgent contemporary concerns.

Review:

"Ware recounts his own journey to Orthodoxy and reflects on themes such as resurrection, repentance, salvation, worship, martyrdom, and prayer." -- Theology Today 58.4 (January 2002)

Those who have been taught by Bishop Kallistos will need no urging to begin collecting these Collected Works. -- Eastern Christendom

Very good introduction to Orthodox theology and spirituality. Essential reading for any Christian who wants to enrich his spiritual life. -- Coptic Church Review 22.4 (Winter 2001)

About this edition

• Publisher: St Vladimirs Seminary Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0881412104
• ISBN 13: 9780881412109
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 230