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The Sacred in Life and Art
The concept of a completely profane world -- of a cosmos wholly desacralized -- is a fairly recent invention of the Western mind, and only now are we beginning to realize the appalling consequences of trying to order and mold our social, personal, and creative life in obedience to its dictates. This book attempts to clarify what is demanded of us if we are to have any chance of avoiding the impending catastrophe. It examines the nature and significance of the sacred itself and focuses on the ever-present, timeless qualities of beauty, love, and miracle through which we can be renewed and transformed whatever the condition of the world in which we live.
Christianity
In this culmination of his life's work, Philip Sherrard draws from the depths of the Orthodox tradition to reveal the 'face' of Christianity as a world religion. Through a critique of the modern scientific and rationalist paradigm, he seeks to restore a Christian cosmology and reaffirms the importance of sacred symbolism and art. The book includes a creative engagement with non-Christian traditions, with the 'metaphysical logic' of the popular esotericist, Ren Gunon, and with distinctive modern writers such as Nietzsche and Jung.
Christianity and Eros
Essays on the theme of sexual love.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.In this book the author does not provide a systematic theology of sexual love but indicates some of the considerations and principles that must be taken into account before such a theology can be adequately formulated.
The Marble Threshing Floor
Studies in modern Greek poetry.Since its emergence as an independent nation during the 19th century Greece has produced a succession of poets of whom any country would be proud. Their poetry has behind it the majestic and awe-inspiring worlds of ancient Greece and Byzantium, as well as the centuries-old tradition of folk-song and ballad.In this book the author examines the poetry of five of Greece's major poets: Solomos, Palamas, Cavafis, Sikelianos, and Seferis.
The Greek East and the Latin West
The division of Christendom into the Greek East and the Latin West has its origins far back in history but its consequences still affect Europe, and thus Western Civilization. Sherrard's study seeks to indicate both the fundamental character and some of the consequences of this division. He points especially to the underlying metaphysical bases of Greek Christian thought, and contrasts them with those of the Latin West.
Voices of Modern Greece
This anthology is composed of revised translations selected from five volumes of work by major poets of modern Greece offered by Keeley and Sherrard during the 1960s and '70s. Poems chosen are those that translate most successfully into English and that are also representative of the best work of the original poets--C.P. Cavafy, Angelos Sikelianos, George Seferis, Odysseus Elytis, and Nikos Gatsos.
Edward Lear, the Corfu Years
This journal of Lears travels through the island of Crete is a detailed and sometimes minute-by-minute commentary on the landscape and a record of the ups and downs, physical and mental, of an artist traveling on foot over difficult country , written by Lears own inimitable style.
