St Symeon the New Theologian and Orthodox TraditionThe teachings of St Symeon (949 1022) created much controversy in Byzantium and led to his short lived exile to Asia Minor in 1009. This book examines St Symeon from within the Byzantine mystical tradition, looking at him as both a highly personal and a very traditional ecclesiastical writer. For the first time in modern scholarship, this study explores St Symeon's attitude to Scripture and to church worship; his relations with his spiritual father,