"Den andra världen är den här världen"

"Philip Sherrard is truly a prophet for our present age, messenger whose winged words are addressed not so much to the twentieth century in which he lived as twenty-first that now unfolding." With this depiction metropolitan Kallistos Ware described English poet and theologian Philip Sherrard, legacy writings has prophetic urgency light of current crises. For encounter with modern Greek poets 1950s led him study theological roots Orthodoxy, basic ecological challenge technological or economic but spiritual. Without contemplative frame mind, "the eye heart", we cannot see world God. And only if God can overcome crisis. The leitmotif Sherrards work what terms "theantropocosmic vision" – vision man nature makes it possible us perceive experience both ourselves live sacred realities. Our human vocation, priests creation, reveal anew holiness nature, raising up from its fallen state rendering once more transparent divine glory.