Description
Among the God-pleasing ascetics in our era whose dedication and sanctity have illumined the craggy wilderness of Scetis (or Scete), the name of Abfna Matta al-Maskîn [Father Matthew the Poor] stands exceptionally striking as a vivid example of the spiritual animation of Coptic monasticism and the profound conviction of the superiority of the world of the spirit and everything that is otherworldly. As a contemporary luminary of the highest order, he bears the everburning torch of desert asceticism which was initially kindled by the great fourth-century anchorite, St. Antony the Star of the Desert
Contents
Preface…………………………….11
Chapter One : Who is Abûna Matta al-Maskîn?……….13
Chapter Two: Works on Religious Celebrations………17
Chapter Three: The Home of Eastern and Western Monasticism……19
Chapter Four: Major Work in the Area of Prayer and Efficacy………27
Chapter Five: The Divine Logos………………………………………….31
Chapter Six: The Word and the Life of the Church…………………..35
Chapter Seven: On ‘Seeing’ the Unseen………………………………….41
Chapter Eight: Divination and the Union With God……………………47
Chapter Nine: The Gospel According to Saint Mark………………….51
Chapter Ten: An Analytical Study of the Johannine Gospel………..61
Chapter Eleven: Saint John the Divine the Essence of Christian Faith.75
Chapter Twelve: The Metaphysics of the Living Truth…………………..87
Chapter Thirteen: The Holy Theotokos According the the Orthodox Concept.91
Chapter Fourteen: An Elucidation – The Acts of the Apostles…………………..99
Chapter Fifteen: The Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romans…………………….107
Chapter Sixteen: The Epistle of Saint Paul the Apostle to the Galatians…….113
Chapter Seventeen: The Epistle of Saint Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians…..119
Chapter Eighteen: The Epistle of Saint Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews……..125
Chapter Nineteen: Saint Paul the Apostle – His Life and Theology………………129
Chapter Twenty: Saint Athanasius the Apostolic…………………………………135
Chapter Twenty-One: The Mystery of the Eucharist…………………………………..145
Chapter Twenty-Two: Works of Sociological and Spiritual Interest…………………153
Chapter Twenty-Three: The Church and the World………………………………………157
Chapter Twenty-Four: A Study in the Meaning and Understanding of Genuine Unity and Ecumenism as Globally Considered by Abûna Matta al-Maskîn………………167
Chapter Twenty-Five: Christian Unity – Fact or Fiction?…………………………………177
Chapter Twenty-Six: The Malaise of Spiritual Lethargy………………………………..185
Chapter Twenty-Seven: My Interview with His Reverence Fr. Matta al-Maskîn…………………………………..191
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Translated and Adapted Works………………………………….213
Chapter Twenty-Nine: An Overall Evaluation……………………………………………..219
Annotated Bibliography……………………………………………..231
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