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Introduction

The Spiritual Tradition of the Monks of the East

Primitive Monasticism

Evagrius of Pontus (399) and Pure Prayer

Macarius and Mysticism of the Heart

The Prayer of Jesus

Doctrine of Deification:

Gregory ofNyssa and Maximus

Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022

Byzantine Hesychasm up to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

Gregory Palamas Theologian of Hesychasm

Youth

The Controversy with Barlaam and Akindynus

The Theology of Hesychasm

A Christian Existentialism

Hesychasm After Palamas

In the Christian East from the Fourteenth Century to Today

The Hesychast Tradition in Russia

Conclsuion

Chronology

Notes on the Illustrations

Index