Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia, formerly Timothy Ware, is unquestionably the best-known Orthodox theologian in the Western world today. The papers collected in this volume are designed to demonstrate the spread of his own interests and concerns and therefore range from the Desert Fathers to modern church dialogue, from patristics to church music, from the Philokalia to human «priesthood». In the course of a long career he has touched the lives of many people and there is a section of tributes concerned with his role as spiritual father, teacher, writer, pastor, theologian, and monk. In the epilogue the Metropolitan himself reflects on his many years as a pilgrim to Mount Athos. Most of the papers included in this volume were delivered at a conference convened by the Friends of Mount Athos at Madingley Hall, Cambridge, in 2015 in honour of Metropolitan Kallistos's eightieth birthday.

CONTENTS: Message from His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew - Address by His Eminence Archbishop Gregorios of Thyateira and Great Britain - Andreas Andreopoulos/Graham Speake: Introduction - Part 1: Tributes to Metropolitan Kallistos - Frances Jennings: The Spiritual Father - Nikolai Sakharov: The Monk - Stephen Platt: The Pastor and Bishop - Marcus Plested: The Teacher - Ephrem Lash: The Translator and Writer - Andrew Louth: The Theologian - Andreas Andreopoulos: An English Orthodox Bishop? - Part 2: Papers in Honour of Metropolitan Kallistos - Sebastian Brock: An Early Syriac Exposition of the Holy Mysteries - Maximos Constas: 'Nothing is Greater than Divine Love': Evagrios of Pontos, St Maximos the Confessor, and the Philokalia - Hilarion Alfeyev: St Symeon the New Theologian and the Studite Monastic Tradition - Elizabeth Jeffreys: On the Annunciation: Manganeios Prodromos, no. 120 105 - John Chryssavgis: Philokalia: A Vocabulary for Our Time - Nikolaos Hatzinikolaou: The Desert, Hesychia, and Ascesis: Then and Now - John Behr: Patristic Texts as Icons - Rowan Williams: Deification, Hypostatization, and Kenosis - Elizabeth Theokritoff: Priest of Creation or Cosmic Liturgy? - Dimitri Conomos: C. S. Lewis and Church Music - Kallistos Ware: Fifty-Four Years as an Athonite Pilgrim