The Inner Kingdom

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THE COLLECTED WORKS The Inner Kingdom by BISHOP KALLISTOS WARE CONTENTS ABBREVIATIONS FOREWORD Strange yet familiar: MY JOURNEY TO THE ORTHODOX CHURCH “This is what I have always believed... ” The Church is One Tradition, martyrdom, stillness The Church as communion Look not at the things that are seen... “Go joyfully”: the mystery of DEATH AND RESURRECTION “I knew you would come. Deaths great and little Both tragedy and blessing Continuing communion A hundred times finer and more subtle... You are the music... The orthodox experience OF REPENTANCE The starting point of the Good News “A great understanding” The Lenten springtime The sacrament of repentance The gift of tears Sorrowful yet always rejoicing The theology OF WORSHIP Stand before God With the mind in the heart Unceasingly day and night A SENSE OF WONDER Pray without ceasing: THE IDEAL OF CONTINUAL PRAYER IN EASTERN MONASTICISM The literal interpretation The answer of Abba Lucius Continual prayer as an implicit state Silence in prayer: THE MEANING OF HESYCHIA Different levels ofhesychia Hesychia and the Jesus Prayer What practical use is the hesychast to others? The seed of the church: MARTYRDOM AS A UNIVERSAL VOCATION The Triumph of Orthodoxy Voluntary acceptance Solidarity A universal vocation Joyful sorrow 1 HE SPIRITUAL GUIDE IN ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY More important than all possible books The spiritual guide as a “charismatic”figure Flight and return: the preparation of the spiritual guide The three gifts of the spiritual guide Obedience and freedom In the absence of a starets Contemporary examples The fool in christ AS PROPHET AND APOSTLE Breakdown or breakthrough? From the desert to the city "I am going to mock the world” Imitators of the Divine Fool Prophet and apostle Unwitting prophets? The perils of folly Time: prison or PATH TO FREEDOM? Circle, line, spiral Enemy or friend? Bisecting the world of time Time as the freedom to love Without the meaning there is no time Dare we hope FOR THE SALVATION OF ALL? “Love could not bear that” Two strands of Scripture God the cosmic physician An uncondemned universalist The scourgings of love Love and freedom In favor of universal hope Against universal hope Index part i C T> Q I K CM K, O T U V W r Index part 2 Subjects C T> Q K. CM K O T JL K V