Nepsis in the Philokalia

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10.2991/assehr.k.200311.024How to use a DOI?

Keywords

nous, nepsis, Philokalia, prayer, watchfulness

Abstract

This paper is a review of nepsis according to the Philokalia Fathers.The Philokalia is a collection of texts written between the fourth and the fifteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition. After a person believes and is baptized in Christ, he has put on Christ and become a new man. He grows up to be like Christ by renewing his heart and nous. The Philokalia fathers concern on the renewal of the nous. And the most important way to renew the nous is by controlling the nous with all nepsis (prosoche) and praying (proseuche). The Philokalia fathers emphasized the importance of nepsis because they believed that the arch-enemy of the soul is a certain kind of thought which they described with the word logismoi.Nepsis is the guarding of the heart and nous from logismoi. Nepsis and prayer belong together. Nepsis is the mother of prayer.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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DA  - 2020/03/13
TI  - Nepsis in the Philokalia
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Education, Society, Economy, Humanity and Environment (ICESHE 2019)
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