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Alas, he left nothing in a form that could be published. But in another sense, what he had to say he said through his poetry. Although he knew that, in his own words, \"poetry means language -the inmost essence οf language\", he also knew that unless the language expresses a meaning it will not be poetry. His Ianguage was the vehicle οf his thought, his poems are metaphysical poems. And their language is English, not Greek. Ιη the space οf a few years -he knew little English when he first came to England- he had achieved such mastery οf the English language that he was able to pack the intensity οf his thought into the four-Iine five-beat stanza οf English verse. It is fulsome to make claims for poems beyond those which the poems make for themselves. Capetanakis' poems were written close οn half a century ago. The best οf them, and this in the end may mean nο more than four or five, have not dated, or lost any of that strange, concentrated power of which Edith Sitwell speaks in her introduction. They have withstood the test of time, and will ensure for their author a place among the few poets who in the twentieth century have made a lasting contribution to the rich heritage of English poetry. (from the foreword of Philip Sherrard)","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b84974.jpg","isbn":null,"isbn13":null,"ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":5605,"name":"The Romiosyni Series","books_count":13,"tsearch_vector":"'romiosyni' 'series' 'the'","created_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00"},"pages":38,"publication_year":1987,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"3.0","price_updated_at":null,"cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":84974,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/the-isles-of-greece.json"},{"id":82911,"title":"Christianity and Eros","subtitle":"Essays on the Theme of Sexual Love","description":"In spite of the fact that marriage is recognized as a sacrament by the Church, the attitude of Christian thought towards the sexual relationship and its spiritualizing potentialities has been in practice singularly limited and negative. From the start Christian authors have been ill at ease with the whole subject. Sexual activity tended \u003cbr\u003eto be seen as a sign of man's sinful and degenerate state and the modern Christian is taught tο distinguish between love in the New Testament sense -agape -and eros, and tο see eros as a debased form of agape, if not actuaIly opposed tο it. Αll in all, the Church has done scant justice to its insight that sexual love is, at least potentially, a sacrament. 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The death of his friend who spent his last creative energies painting variations of dragon-slaying Saint George on his regal horse triggers in Kamperidis an exuberant litany of associations, a delicate interlace linking pagan and Christian, Germanic and Greek, spiritual heroes and evil monsters. Kamperidis makes us all part of the interlace, for it is precisely through awareness of our interconnected nature that the therapy can begin to work. Through the impatient and spell-binding movements of his imagination, Kamperidis shows the reader how to reconnect the pieces in a fragmented world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Key Fowden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author of this book endeavours to show that human existence cannot be understood only by the laws that govern natural life. The human person emerges out of the struggle with the forces that are lurking to annihilate the freedom of the human being. What finally emerges is the free person, endowed with a unique and distinct soul, a singular existence owing his or her being not to biological origins but to a destination pointing towards eternity. Often, this encounter takes the form of artistic creation, as in the case of Peris Ieremiadis, the painter whose struggle with the evil of illness and his numerous depictions of Saint George inspired Lambros Kamperidis to create this work 'towards a Life of the Saint for our times'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLakis Proguidis","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b219831.jpg","isbn":"978-960-7120-38-0","isbn13":"978-960-7120-38-0","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":52,"publication_year":2016,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"9.0","price_updated_at":"2017-07-11","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί - Εκκρεμής εγγραφή","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Ο ιππεύς, ο ίππος, ο δράκων","publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":219831,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/the-rider-steed-dragon.json"},{"id":219006,"title":"A Hesychast from the Holy Mountain in the Heart of a City","subtitle":"Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia","description":"Elder Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia (1906-1991), who was formally glorified as a saint by the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in November 2013, has long been acknowledged and recognized as a luminary and spiritual guide with the special grace of 'clear sight'. His life was particularly remarkable in that he lived it in both ascetic fastnesses and urban contexts.\u003cbr\u003eHe left the world for Mount Athos at a young age and joined the Skete of Kavsokalyvia where, for seven years, under the guidance of the Elders Panteleimon and Ioannikios he lived a hesychastic life. It was there he underwent his most powerful formative experiences and received his gift of grace, and he always considered it his spiritual home. Bad health, however, forced him to return to the world and, after a number of years on his native island of Evia, at the beginning of the Second World War in Greece he was appointed chaplain of the Polyclinic Hospital next to Omonia Square in the heart of the city of Athens. After thirty-three years at the Polyclinic he retired first to his monastic retreat in the tiny monastery of St Nicholas at Kallisia, north of Athens, and later went on to found the Holy Monastery of the Transfiguration at Milesi. In 1991, seeing his life was nearing its end, he returned to his hermitage on the Holy Mountain where he fell asleep in the Lord on 2 December.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis short study of the life and teaching of Saint Porphyrios is, in the words of its author Athanasios Papathanasiou, 'an exercise in encounter with the present'. He takes into consideration present realities and conditions, both in the Church and society, and in the light of theology understood as a living discipline endeavours to determine certain particular qualities of the saint, drawing particularly on the saint's own words as recorded in the book Wounded by Love. His insights and interpretations have an immediacy and freshness of singular relevance to our perception of what constitutes a holy personage in the modern world and point to how we can reorient our thinking accordingly.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b222225.jpg","isbn":"978-960-7120-35-9","isbn13":"978-960-7120-35-9","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":46,"publication_year":2014,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"4.0","price_updated_at":"2017-10-27","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί - Εκκρεμής εγγραφή","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Ένας ησυχαστής του Αγίου Όρους στην καρδιά της πόλης: Όσιος Πορφύριος Καυσοκαλυβίτης","publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":222225,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/a-hesychast-from-the-holy-mountain-in-heart-of-city.json"}]