Philip Sherrard
Philip Sherrard | |
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| Born | Philip Owen Arnould Sherrard 23 September 1922 Oxford, England |
| Died | 30 May 1995 (aged 72) London, England |
| Occupation | Author, translator, theologian |
| Education | Dauntsey's School |
| Alma mater | Peterhouse, Cambridge King's College London |
| Subject | Modern Greek studies, Orthodox Christianity, the environment |
| Notable works | The Greek East and the Latin West The Rape of Man and Nature The Marble Threshing Floor |
| Spouses | Anna Mirodia Denise Harvey |
| Children | 2 |
Philip Owen Arnould Sherrard (23 September 1922 – 30 May 1995) was a British author and translator.
His work includes translations of Modern Greek poets, and books on Modern Greek literature and culture, metaphysics, theology, art and aesthetics. In England he was influential in making major Greek poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries known. Sherrard was a practising Eastern Orthodox Christian and was responsible, along with Kallistos Ware and G. E. H. Palmer, for the first full translation of the Philokalia into English. He also wrote prolifically on theological and philosophical themes, describing what he believed to be a social and spiritual crisis occurring in the developed world, specifically modern attitudes towards the biophysical environment from a Christian and perennialist perspective.