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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 291
EAN: 9780385500920
ISBN: 0385500920
Label: Image
Manufacturer: Image
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: November 19, 2002
Publisher: Image
Release Date: November 19, 2002
Sales Rank: 122768
Studio: Image
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An acclaimed expert in Christian mysticism travels to a monastery high in the Trodos Mountains of Cyprus and offers a fascinating look at the Greek Orthodox approach to spirituality that will appeal to readers of Carlos Castaneda.
In an engaging combination of dialogues, reflections, conversations, history, and travel information, Kyriacos C. Markides continues the exploration of a spiritual tradition and practice little known in the West he began in Riding with the Lion. His earlier book took readers to the isolated peninsula of Mount Athos in northern Greece and into the group of ancient monasteries. There, in what might be called a “Christian Tibet,” two thousand monks and hermits practice the spiritual arts to attain a oneness with God. In his new book, Markides follows Father Maximos, one of Mount Athos’s monks, to the troubled island of Cyprus. As Father Maximos establishes churches, convents, and monasteries in this deeply divided land, Markides is awakened anew to the magnificent spirituality of the Greek Orthodox Church.
Images of the land and the people of Cyprus and details of its tragic history enrich the Mountain of Silence. Like the writings of Castaneda, the book brilliantly evokes the confluence of an inner and outer journey. The depth and richness of its spiritual message echo the thoughts and writings of Saint Francis of Assisi and other great saints of the Church as well. The result is a remarkable work–a moving, profoundly human examination of the role and the power of spirituality in a complex and confusing world.
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The spiritual traditions of the Eastern Orthodox Church are all but unknown to most Christians in the West, who often think of Christianity as split into two camps: Bible-based Protestantism and sacramental Catholicism. Yet in The Mountain of Silence, sociologist Kyriacos Markides suggests that Orthodox spirituality offers rich resources for Western Christians to integrate the head and the heart, and to regain a more expansive view of Christian life. The book combines elements of memoir, travelogue, and history in a single story. Markides journeys to a cluster of monasteries on Mount Athos, an isolated peninsula in northern Greece and one of the holiest sites in the Orthodox tradition. He also visits the troubled island of Cyprus, largely occupied by Turkey since 1974, and makes the acquaintance of a monk named Father Maximos, who has established churches, convents, and monasteries. Markides, a native Cypriot, tells the tale of this journey in a tone that's loose and light, with many excursions on Church history and Greek and Turkish politics. But despite the easygoing tone, the importance of this book is potentially immense. The Mountain of Silence introduces a world that is entirely new to many Western readers, and unveils a Christian tradition that reveres the mystical approach to God as much as the rational, a tradition that Markides says "may have the potential to inject Christianity with the new vitality that it so desperately needs." --Michael Joseph Gross
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THE MOUNTAIN OF SILENCE I found to be a wonderful and engaging introduction to the world of Eastern Orthodox Spirituality. For the author himself, a sociology professor in Maine who had grown up in Cyprus, the journey he describes in such a winsome and colorful manner, is a journey of rediscovering his own roots and heritage in the Orthodox Christian Tradition and the Middle-Eastern part of the world. Thus, it is a kind of travelogue with the author visiting Cyprus and Mt. Athos and telling ... Read More
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My title says exactly what this book is about. It is a New Age Guide to Orthodoxy. This is not True Orthodoxy. A work of fiction. Don't waste your time reading this rubbish. It will only confuse you. I gave it a 2 because it has an index and an interesting cover.
If you want to know about True Orthodoxy read the Church Fathers or the book by the respected Father Pomazansky,"Orthodox Dogmatic Theology:A concise exposition". The book, The Mountain of Silence, is pure entertainment by an ... Read More
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I think the power of this book is that since it is written mostly as a conversation all of the information presented seems much more real than in most books. One really feels invited to step into the fullness of the Orthodox faith. It is true that the author interjects his own opinions in places and that more of a theological framework is needed to fully understand Orthodoxy. But I still give the book five stars because no other book has moved me so deeply towards longing to live in the presence ... Read More
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Mountain of Silence is a wonderful read. For spiritual seekers of any shade, this book reveals the great depths of the Orthodox tradition, demonstrating that Orthodox Christianity has everything seekers often look for in Far Eastern mystical traditions... and more, in my opinion. It demonstrates to Christians that they need not abandon Christianity altogether, if they deem much of it empty or superficial, but may turn to Orthodoxy for a deep, experiential, practical Christianity. For the merely curious, ... Read More
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I purchased this book at a time when the spiritual encouragement this book contains had special meaning to me. I have passed it on to a friend who called to say that this book is truly meaningful in the best sense. My thanks to the author and those he writes about for the spiritual lessons. Magnificent
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