Forme ale organizării vieții monahale și ale misiunii mănăstirii promovate de Sfântul Nil Sorski
Forms of organization of monastic life and mission of the monastery promoted by St. Nilus Sorsky

Summary/Abstract: Saint Nil Sorski appears, probably, like that the most important figure in systematic promotion of learning and practicing contemplative silence in medieval Russian spiritual tradition. Saint Nil brought to Russia from Mount Athos the practice of life in smaller communities(lifestyle of sketes), causing a high hesychast current in the spirit of total monastic poverty (the movement of non-possessors) and of the monks’non-engagement in social and political life. He saw in this new form of monastic life (intermediate between cenobitism and heremitism) the chance of a more solitary life in which monks could more fully respect their religious vows, avoiding the temptation of materialism which monasteries that owned properties were exposed to. The works of this great teacher ofRussian monasticism give in detail also a theory of moral perfection, onwhich “the great prior” wanted to rebuild the Russian monastic life.

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