Spiritual Guidance on Mount Athos

Graham Speake studied classics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was awarded a doctorate by the University of Oxford for a thesis on the Byzantine transmission of ancient Greek literature. He is the founder and Chairman of the Friends of Mount Athos and author of Mount Athos: Renewal in Paradise (2nd edn., 2014), for which he was awarded the Criticos Prize. He is also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.Kallistos Ware holds a doctorate in theology from the University of Oxford where from 1966 to 2001 he was Fellow of Pembroke College and Spalding Lecturer in Eastern Orthodox Studies. He is a monk of the monastery of St. John the Theologian, Patmos, and an assistant bishop in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain. In 2007 he was raised to the rank of metropolitan.

• Contents: Introduction – What Do We Mean by Spiritual Guidance? – Spiritual Fatherhood on the Holy Mountain – Spiritual Guidance according to the Philokalia – Spiritual Guidance in Mount Athos and Russia and the Theological Notion of Person – Charisma and Institution at an Athonite Cloister: Historical Developments and Future Prospects – Spiritual Fatherhood in the World: A Practical Approach – The Challenges of Spiritual Guidance in Modern Greece – The Renewal of Women’s Monasticism in the Twentieth Century through the Guidance of Athonite Monks