The mystagogical psychology of the greek fathers and prayer: A diachronic study

H.P.S. Bakker

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The mystagogical psychology of the greek fathers and prayer: A diachronic study

H.P.S. Bakker

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This paper is dedicated to Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, who was one of the keynote speakers at the first congress of the Centre for Patristic Research on mystagogy.¹ Moreover, he will act as γέρων throughout this paper, a role that Dionysius the Areopagite² fulfils in the Mystagogia of Maximus the Confessor.³ I will elaborate key passages from the Metropolitan’s publications to answer the central question of this paper: in the Greek patristic tradition, which human organ prays? The first quotation gives us the lie of the land by discerning a noetic and a cardiac current:

In the later fourth century two...

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Prayer and the Transformation of the Self in Early Christian Mystagogy
Editors	H. van Loon, G. de Nie, M. Op de Coul, P. van Egmond
Place of Publication	Leuven
Publisher	Peeters
Chapter	19
Pages	339-364
Number of pages	26
ISBN (Electronic)	9789042937772
ISBN (Print)	9789042936119
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1q26nwp.25
Publication status	Published - 2018

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Name	Late Antique History and Religion
Publisher	Peeters
Volume	18

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The mystagogical psychology of the greek fathers and prayer: A diachronic study. / Bakker, H.P.S.
Prayer and the Transformation of the Self in Early Christian Mystagogy. ed. / H. van Loon; G. de Nie; M. Op de Coul; P. van Egmond. Leuven: Peeters, 2018. p. 339-364 (Late Antique History and Religion; Vol. 18).

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