Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ABBREVIATIONS USED -- PART ONE. THE TIMES IN WHICH NIL SORSKIJ LIVED -- I. A Nation in Flux -- II. Biography of Nil -- PART TWO. SPIRITUALITY OF NIL SORSKIJ -- I. Ascetical Ideal -- II. The Way Back to God -- III. Hesychasm of Nil -- IV. External Practices -- V. Sources of Nil's Teaching -- VI. Influence of Nil on His Contemporaries -- EPILOGUE -- Appendix I: Letters of Nil Sorskij -- Appendix II: The Hesychastic Method -- Sources -- Particular Bibliography Dealing with Nil Sorskij -- General Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatterweiterlesen