Between Heaven and Earth

Description

Orthodox Christian Monasticism has been significantly revived on Mt. Athos and throughout the Orthodox world during this past half century; it is also well established and growing even here in America.

This book by Monk Theocletos of the Dionysiou Monastery on Mt. Athos, now translated into English by Fr. Peter Chamberas, should prove very interesting and informative reading on the historical, theological and spiritual tradition of Orthodox Monasticism. While there are many beautiful pictorial books on Mt. Athos, there are only a few - and this is one of them - on the essence of Orthodox Monasticism. The literary style of an ongoing dialogue, among several key persons on Mt. Athos, as utilized by the author to present his subject, goes a long way to help thoughtful readers - both among monastics and laypersons - appreciate the spiritual traditions of the Orthodox Church that can be most edifying and potentially life-transforming.