Symeon the New Theologian The Practical and Theological Chapters and the Three Theological Discourses

Symeon the New Theologian transformed the Evagrian tradition of hesychia, with its insistence on absolute solitude remote from the affairs of men, and practised it in a monastery in the very heart of Constantinople. A champion of Orthodoxy, and of monks, he composed works which became perhaps the most important source of the hesychast movement on Mount Athos two centuries after his death. Always the spiritual master rather than the systematic theologian, Symeon wrote as he had taught--from his own immediate experience.Bell, David N. is the author of 'Symeon the New Theologian The Practical and Theological Chapters and the Three Theological Discourses', published 1982 under ISBN 9780879079413 and ISBN 087907941X.