När en ung andlig revolutionär mot slutet av 900-

talet framträdde i den kristna världens östliga metropol,

Bysans, var det början till en förnyelse vars rännilar

når ändå in i vår tid. Symeon den nye teologen

vittnar om vad som är möjligt n�[...]

Today the Byzantine mystic, writer, and monastic leader Symeon the New Theologian (ca. 949 to 1022 ce) is considered a saint by the Orthodox Church and revered as one of its most influential spiritual thinkers. But in his own time a cloud of controversy surrounded him and the suspicion of heresy tai[...]

Transforming evagrian hesychia, with its insistence on absolute solitude, Symeon lived as the spiritual father of a bustling monastery in the very heart of Constantinople. Yet his works became, two centuries after his death, perhaps the most important inspiration for Athonite heyschasm.[...]