Symeon the New Theologian

[short]Translated, with an introduction, by Paul John McGuckin [/short][long] Transforming evagrian hesychia, with its insistence on absolute solitude, Symeon lived as the spiritual father of a bustling monastery in the very heart of Constantinople. Yet his works became, two centuries after his death, perhaps the most important inspiration for Athonite heyschasm. [/long]