The STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABEŞ-BOLYAI issue article summary

The summary of the selected article appears at the bottom of the page. In order to get back to the contents of the issue this article belongs to you have to access the link from the title. In order to see all the articles of the archive which have as author/co-author one of the authors mentioned below, you have to access the link from the author's name.

 
       
         
    STUDIA THEOLOGIA%20ORTHODOXA - Issue no. 1 / 2021  
         
  Article:   PSELLOS’ COMMENTARY ON THE JESUS PRAYER.

Authors:  FREDERICK LAURITZEN.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  
DOI: 10.24193/subbto.2021.1.05
Published Online: 2021-06-30
Published Print: 2021-06-30
pp. 117-134
FULL PDF

The commentary on the Jesus Prayer published by Sinkiewicz in 1987 is a genuine work by Psellos. It is ascribed to him in a number of manuscripts and is not eccentric in relation to his interests. Indeed, he wrote a commentary on the Kyrie Eleison. Moreover, the theological points in the commentary echo those he described in Poem 4 Westerink. The commentary contains a previously unidentified verse which contains eleventh century expressions. Psellos’ commentary was used by Markos Eugenikos when he wrote his own commentary on the same prayer which was published in the Philocalia. Psellos’ commentary was transmitted in a number of manuscripts preserved today on Mount Athos also under his name.

Keywords: hesychasm, Jesus Prayer, Michael Psellos, Markos Eugenikos, Athos.
 
         
     
         
         
      Back to previous page