{"product_id":"the-wisdom-of-silouan-the-athonite-silence-tears-and-the-love-of-enemies-9798195272517","title":"The Wisdom of Silouan the Athonite: Silence, Tears, and the Love of Enemies","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sapientia Mundi Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Christianity - Orthodox\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Russian peasant who could barely write became one of the great spiritual teachers of the twentieth century, and the wisdom he carried out of his Athonite cell still alters every reader who encounters it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wisdom of Silouan the Athonite: Silence, Tears, and the Love of Enemies\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of Saint Silouan (1866-1938), the unlettered Russian monk of Mount Athos whose teachings on humility, unceasing prayer, the gift of tears, and the love of enemies have made him among the most influential figures in modern Eastern Christian spirituality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn Symeon Antonov in a peasant village in Tambov province, he entered the Russian monastery of St. Panteleimon in 1892, was given the name Silouan at his tonsure, and spent the next forty-six years on the Holy Mountain in obscurity, prayer, and slow transformation. \u003ci\u003eThe Wisdom of Silouan the Athonite: Silence, Tears, and the Love of Enemies\u003c\/i\u003e traces this hidden life and its enduring teaching with care and clarity, drawing on the writings of his disciple Sophrony Sakharov and the long Athonite tradition that produced him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecounts the vision of the living Christ at the chapel of the Prophet Elijah and the long years of trial that followed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExplores the famous word given to him in extremity, to keep his mind in hell while refusing to despair\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExamines unceasing prayer, the gift of compunctive tears, and the practice of \u003ci\u003ehesychia\u003c\/i\u003e at the heart of Athonite contemplative life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTraces his most distinctive teaching, that the love of enemies is the only reliable proof of the Holy Spirit at work in a soul\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIlluminates the Adamic prayer for the whole world, in which the praying soul takes up the lament of the first man for the entire human race\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wisdom of Silouan the Athonite: Silence, Tears, and the Love of Enemies\u003c\/i\u003e offers a sustained and carefully grounded account of a spiritual teaching forged in obscurity yet marked by remarkable depth, presenting Silouan's witness as a demanding and enduring path within the Christian contemplative tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47882879697047,"sku":"9798195272517","price":1133.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798195272517.webp?v=1781097714","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-wisdom-of-silouan-the-athonite-silence-tears-and-the-love-of-enemies-9798195272517","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}