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'''Philip Sherrard''' (September 23was a poet, translator, 1922 — May 30[[theologian]], 1995) and interpreter of the Orthodox tradition. He was a British authorprolific writer on theological and philosophical themes, translatoraddressing the origins of the social and spiritual crisis he believed was occurring in the developed world, and philosopherspecifically exploring modern attitudes towards the environment from an Orthodox perspective. Together with Timothy Ware (Metropolitan [[Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia]]) and G. E. Palmer, he produced a complete translation of the [[Philokalia]] (to date four of the five volumes have been published). His work includes important translations He was also a notable translator of Modern Greek poetspoetry, and produced several books on Modern Greek literature and culture, metaphysics, theology, art and aesthetics. A pioneer of Modern Greek studies in England, he was influential in making major Greek poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries known in the English-speaking world. ==Biography==Philip Owen Arnould Sherrard was born on [[September 23]], 1922 in Oxford. His family had many connections with the literary world of the period: his mother, Brynhild Olivier, had been a member of Rupert Brooke's circle before the First World War, and his half-sister was married to Quentin Bell, the nephew of Virginia Woolf. He was also educated at Dauntsey's School and at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he obtained a degree in History. Sherrard first came to Greece as a soldier after the liberation of Athens in 1946 <ref>[http://deniseharveypublisher.gr/people/philip-sherrard PHILIP SHERRARD 1922–1995]</ref>, and soon afterwards he met and married his first wife, Anna Mirodia. The culture and traditional way of life that still pertained in the country made a prolific writer profound impression on him. In 1951-52, and again in 1957-62, he served as Assistant Director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens. In 1956 his doctoral thesis on theological the Greek poets Solomos, Palamas, Cavafy, Angelos Sikelianos, and Seferis (King's College, London) was published as ''The Marble Threshing Floor''. In the same year in Athens he was baptized into the [[Orthodox Church]].<ref>[http://deniseharveypublisher.gr/people/philip-sherrard PHILIP SHERRARD 1922–1995]</ref>. He made frequent piligimages to the Holy Mountain, [[Mount Athos]], and became profoundly imbued with the prayer and philosophical themessilence of Orthodox Christianity. His book on Athos was first published in 1960, addressing with the origins title ''Athos: The Mountain of Silence''. His writings often interpret the social cultural background of Greek poetry and life through the spiritual crisis wealth of the Orthodox tradition. In 1959 Sherrard bought part of disused magnesite mine near the small shipping town of Limni in the island of Evia. He planted trees and plants where the former mine installations had been, and helped to restore the homes of the former directors who had lived there before the mine was abandoned at the outbreak of the Second World War. In 1970 he believed was occurring accepted a lectureship in the developed worldHistory of the Orthodox Church, a post attached jointly to King's College, London and the School of Slavonic and specifically exploring East European Studies (SSEES). After his resignation in 1977, he moved back to Greece, where Limni now became his permanent home. In 1979 he married his second wife, the publisher Denise Harvey. They endeavoured as far as possible to live a simple life according to the principles of the Orthodox Church, without many of the conveniences of modern attitudes towards living, such as electricity and the environmen from a Christian perspectivetelephone.

He died in London on [[May 30th30]], 1995 , at the age of 72, and was buried near the Orthodox [[chapel ]] he had had built on his property.<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19950605/ai_n13986685/pg_1?tag=artBody;col1 OBITUARY: Philip Sherrard]</ref>.

Sherrard's first book was ''The Marble Threshing Floor'' (1956), an “introduction to modern Greek poetry for English-speaking readers, which, together with his translations, brought the poetry of Cavafy and Seferis, together with its cultural background, to the attention of the literary world.”<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19950605/ai_n13986685/pg_1?tag=artBody;col1 OBITUARY: Philip Sherrard]</ref>. As a translator of Modern Greek poetry, he had a long and productive collaboration with Edmund Keeley, together publishing many books, among them This was followed in 1959 by ''Four The Greek PoetsEast and the Latin West'' (1966), a study of the Christian tradition, examining the 'formation'Collected Poemsand de-formation'of a single unified Greco-Roman Christian world. As Sherrard wrote in his introduction to the second edition in 1992, it was his ' of George Seferis (1967) first attempt to confront and of Cto find some explanation for the spiritual dereliction..P. Cavafy (1975) and of the modern Western World''Selected Poems'' by Angelos Sikelianos (1979) and Odysseus Elytis (1981). The importance book is a study of these translations is indicated by the fact differences, in world-view and hence in theology, that both Seferis emerged over time between the Greek East and the Latin West, and Elytis went on to receive the Nobel Prize for Literatureconsequences of these developments in a 'crisis of whose symptoms, social and environmental, after their work had we become known in the non-Greek-speaking worlddaily more aware'.<br> A frequent theme Sherrard developed these themes in Sherrard’s writing was his impassioned attempt a number of later works, in which he explored the profound relationship between our way of thinking or theologising and our attitude to avert an oncoming environmental catastrophethe world around us. He saw was convinced that the way we behold our God in heaven is reflected in what we believe about our environment. Thus he anticipated our present concern with the world’s ecological crisis , which he saw as evidence of a larger spiritual crisis . ''The Rape of Man and sought Nature'' (1987) is an inquiry into the origins of modern science, as well as an impassioned attempt to warn against the oncoming environmental catastrophe which he believed it has resulted in. In ''The Sacred in Life and Art'' he explores the beauty and sacredness of the world in Orthodox cosmology, and in ''Human Image: World Image: The Death and Resurrection of Sacred Cosmology'' he analyses contemporary cosmological assumptions critically, and sets out to reconstruct a traditional Christian cosmology. Despite the anguish with which he considers the predicament in which we find ourslves, in these works he seeks always to “emphasize the living relevance of the Orthodox spiritual tradition in a fragmented secular world.”<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19950605/ai_n13986685/pg_1?tag=artBody;col1 OBITUARY: Philip Sherrard]</ref>. He produced <br> As a number translator of works developing this themeModern Greek poetry, Sherrard had a long and productive collaboration with Edmund Keeley, together publishing many books, including among them ''The Sacred in Life and ArtFour Greek Poets''(1966), the ''Collected Poems''Human Image: World Image: The Death of George Seferis (1967) and Resurrection of Sacred CosmologyC.P. Cavafy (1975) and '', and Selected Poems''by Angelos Sikelianos (1979) and Odysseus Elytis (1981). The Rape importance of Man these translations is indicated by the fact that both Seferis and Nature''Elytis went on to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, after their work had become known in the non-Greek-speaking world.<br> Among the works for which he is best known (together with his collaborators [[Kallistos Ware ]] and Gerald Palmer) is the complete translation of the ‘’Philokalia’’‘’[[Philokalia]]’’, a the compendium of mystical writings by the spiritual fathers of the Orthodox church. 1998 saw the posthumous publication of ''Christianity: Lineaments of a Sacred Tradition'', a collection of articles dealing with subjects such as Tradition, death and dying, the problem of evil, and the revival of contemplative [[hesychast]] spirituality.

*''The PhilokaliaOrientation and Descent (Poems)" (Eton: The Eastern Christian Spiritual Texts'' (Skylight Paths PublishingAlden and Blackwell, 20061953) ISBN 978-1594731037*''The Betrayal of TraditionMarble Threshing Floor: Essays on the Spiritual Crisis of Modernity'' [contributed article] (World Wisdom, 2005) ISBN 978-0941532556*''Selected Poems 1940-1979'' (Anvil Press Studies in Modern Greek Poetry, 2005) ISBN 978-0856463556*''Science and the Myth of Progress'' [contributed article] (World Wisdom, 2004) ISBN 978-0941532471*''Not of This WorldLondon: A Treasury of Christian Mysticism'' [contribtued article] (World WisdomValentine, 2003) ISBN 978-0941532419*''Human Image World Image: The Death And Resurrection of Sacred Cosmology'' ISBN 978-9607120175*''The PhilokaliaMitchell, Volume 4'' 1956; reprinted Limni (Faber & Faber, 1999Greece) ISBN 978-0571193820*''Christianity: Lineaments of a Sacred Tradition'' (T. & T. Clark PublishersDenise Harvey, 1998) ISBN 978-0567086495*''The Rape of Man & Nature: An Inquiry Into the Origins and Consequences of Modern Science'' (Golgonooza Press1981, 19981992) ISBN 978960-0903880473*''George Seferis: Collected Poems'' (Princeton University Press, 1995) ISBN 9787120-0691014913*''Christianity and Eros'' (Denise Harvey Publisher, 1995) ISBN 97802-96071201067*''The Greek East and the Latin West: A Study in the Christian Tradition'' (Denise Harvey Publisher, 1995) ISBN 978-9607120045*''George SeferisOxford: Complete Poems" (Anvil Oxford University Press Poetry, 1993) ISBN 978-0856462146*''C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems'' 1959; reprinted Limni (Princeton University Press, 1992Greece) ISBN 978-0691015378*''Human Image: World Image : The Death and Resurrection of Sacred Cosmology'' (Golgonooza PressDenise Harvey, 1992) ISBN 978-0903880503*''In the Sign of the Rainbow: Selected Poems, 1940-1986'' (Anvil Press Poetry1995, 19892002) ISBN 978960-0856462214*''The Eclipse of Man and Nature: An Enquiry into the Origins and Consequences of Modern Science'' (Inner Traditions, 1987) ISBN 9787120-04-08928107653

*''The Mind and art Six Poets of C.P. Cavafy: Essays on his life and workModern Greece'' (Denise Harvey Publisherwith Edmund Keeley) (London: Thames and Hudson, 19831960) ISBN 978-0907978169*''Voices The Pursuit of Modern Greece'' (Princeton University Press, 1982editor) ISBN 978-0691013824*''Church(London: John Murray, Papacy and Schism, A Theological Enquiry'' (1964; reprinted Athens: Denise Harvey Publisher, 19781987) ISBN 9780 907978-960712011324-X*''C. P. Cavafy Collected PoemsConstantinople: The Iconography of a Sacred City'' (Princeton University Press, 1975)*''George SeferisLondon: collected poems, 1924-1955'' (Princeton Oxford University Press, 19711965) ISBN 978-0691013008

*''Modern Greece'' (with John Campbell) (London: Ernest Benn, 1968) 510-37951-6*''George Seferis: Collected Poems'' (1924–1955) (with Edmund Keeley) (London: Jonathan Cape, 1969)*''Δοκίμια γιά τόν Νέο Ἑλληνισμό'' (Athens: Athina Publications, 1972)*''C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems'' (with Edmund Keeley) (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975, 1992) ISBN 0-691-06984-0*''Christianity and Eros: Essays on the Theme of Sexual Love'' (London: SPCK, 1976; reprinted Limni (Greece): Denise Harvey, 1995, 2002) ISBN 960-7120-10-8*''Church, Papacy, and Schism: A Theological Enquiry'' (London: SPCK, 1978; reprinted Limni (Greece): Denise Harvey, 1996) ISBN 960-7120-11-6*''The Wound of Greece: Studies in Neo-Hellenism'' (London: Rex Collings, 1978) ISBN 086-036-0709*''The Philokalia'' (with G. E. H. Palmer and Kallistos Ware), 4 vols, vol. 5 forthcoming (London: Faber, 1979–)*''Motets for a Sunflower'' (poems) (Ipswich: Golgonooza Press, 1979)*''Angelos Sikelianos: Selected Poems'' (with Edmund Keeley) (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979; reprinted Limni (Greece): Denise Harvey, 1996) ISBN 960-7120-12-4*''Odysseus Elytis: Selected Poems'' (with Edmund Keeley) (London: Anvil Press Poetry, 1981, 2007) ISBN 978-85646-355-6*''The Sun Rape of Man and Nature: An Enquiry into the Origins and Consequences of Modern Science'' (Ipswich: Golgonooza Press, 1987) ISBN 0-903880-34-2*''Edward Lear: The Corfu Years: A Chronicle presented through his Letters and Journals'' (editor) (Athens and Dedham: Denise Harvey, 1988) ISBN 0-907978-25-8*''The Sacred in Life and Art'' (Ipswich: Golgonooza Press, 1990; reprinted Limni (Greece): Denise Harvey, 2004) ISBN 960-7120-18-3*''Human Image: World Image: The Deathand Resurrection of Sacred Cosmology'' (John MurrayIpswich: Golgonooza Press, 1992; reprinted Limni (Greece): Denise Harvey, 2004) ISBN 960-7120-17-5*''A Greek Quintet: Poems by Cavafy, Sikelianos, Seferis, Elytis, Gatsos'' (Limni (Greece): Denise Harvey, 1992, 2000) ISBN 960-7120-01-9*''In the Sign of the Rainbow: Selected Poems 1940–1989'' (London: Anvil Press Poetry, 1994) ISBN 0-85646-221-7*''George Seferis: Complete Poems'' (with Edmund Keeley) (London: Anvil Press Poetry, 1995, 2006) ISBN 0-85646-213-6*''Christianity: Lineaments of a Sacred Tradition''. (Brookline, MA: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 1998.) ISBN 9781885652058*''Not of This World: A Treasury of Christian Mysticism'' [contributed article] (World Wisdom, 19652003) ISBN 978-07195111960941532419*''Science and the Myth of Progress'' [contributed article] (World Wisdom, 2004) ISBN 978-0941532471*''The Betrayal of Tradition: Essays on the Spiritual Crisis of Modernity'' [contributed article] (World Wisdom, 2005) ISBN 978-0941532556