promote a far-reaching patristic ressourcement, editing and publishing numerous writings of the Fathers; in this ambitious program a central and decisive place was occupied by the Philokalia. Here, in the patristic and Byzantine texts that they disseminated, the Kollyvades believed that they could find a “word coming forth from silence,”8 which might serve as an antidote to the growing secularism within Greek society. The Kollyvades looked upon this patristic heritage not as an archaeological survival