The philocalic memory

This article by Jacques Touraille focuses on the notion of "philocalic memory," a concept borrowed from the hesychast tradition of the Christian East. The author develops a theological meditation structured around three axes: the memory of sin, the memory of death, and the memory of God. His approach articulates biblical exegesis, patristic anthropology, and reflection on modernity. The central idea is that the memorial overaccumulation characteristic of contemporary civilization paradoxically creates the conditions for a return to this "other memory," interior and transformative, attested by the neptic Fathers and the Philokalia. The theological contribution lies in the distinction between cosmic memory and philocalic memory: whereas the former records the world, the latter transfigures it by relating it to its Edenic origin and its eschatological end, according to a biblical temporality irreducible to linear time.