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PATRISTICS/ Nicholas Cabasilas
Nicholas Cabasilas (born 1319/23 in Thessaloniki and died sometime after 1391) was a well known theological writer and mystic of the Orthodox Church. He was born in Thessaloniki and, as a young man, was involved in politics. Little is known of his later life. He wrote extensively on Hesychast mysticism (a traditional method of Byzantine Christian contemplative prayer that integrates vocal and bodily exercises) and on the theology of Christian life and worship. He is remembered for his two treatises, "Life in Christ" and "The Exposition of the Divine Liturgy." These volumes are generally regarded as classics of Eastern sacramental theology.
In the Byzantine civil war between the rival emperors John V Palaeologus (1341-91) and John VI Cantacuzenus (1347-54), Cabasilas sided with Cantacuzenus' more conservative policies, performing several diplomatic missions and supporting the positions of the theologian Gregory Palamas (1296-1359). Cabasilas' work "Commentary on the Divine Liturgy" is one of the foremost explanations of Christian sacramental worship that exist.
Cabasilas' chief spiritual-ascetical writing, "Life in Christ," proposed a program of Christian spirituality integrating divine and human activity in both individual and common liturgical prayer. By essays and political involvement he manifested a social consciousness relative to economic and institutional (including the church) inequities. The high intellectual level of his conferences and sermons and the sensitivity of his religious poetry have gained an international audience.
He is commemorated by the Orthodox Church on June 20.
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Life in Christ (The), by Nicholas Cabasilas; Translated by Carmino J. Decatangaro; Introduction by Boris Bobrinskoy
The Life in Christ by Nicholas Cabasilas is a remarkable product of Byzantium's last great flowering of theology. 229pp Paper
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