Archimandrite Zacharias (Zacharou)
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In these lectures Father Zacharias unfolds the major contours of the theology of the great contemporary elders St. Silouan the Athonite and Archimandrite Sophrony, given to our generation by our man-loving and gracious God. This edifying lecture series was originally delivered at the invitation of His Grace, Bishop Basil of the Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, at the Diocese's 2001 Clergy Brotherhood Retreat, and is published here with the blessing of the author.
Lecture 1: Introduction: St. Silouan and His Disciple, the Elder Sophrony
Lecture 2: Man’s Birth into Eternal Life: Seeing Christ’s Shape and Hearing His Voice
Lecture 3: Keep Thy Mind in Hell and Despair Not: A Word of God for Our Generation
Lecture 4: God’s Work of Salvation and Man
Lecture 5: Prayer: The Way of Creation, Prayer as Personal Communion, Pure Prayer
Lecture 6: On the Jesus Prayer: Prayer for the Whole World as the Manifestation par excellence of Personhood
Lecture 7: Spiritual Fatherhood as a Ministry of Reconciliation Between Man and God
Lecture 8: Homily: The Presentation of Christ that Justified God and Man
ARCHIMANDRITE ZACHARIAS, Ph. D., is a disciple of Elder Sophrony (of blessed memory), who was a disciple of St. Silouan of Mount Athos. Fr. Zacharias has been for forty years a monk in the Monastery founded by Elder Sophrony: The Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist, Tolleshunt Knights by Maldon, Essex, England.
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