On the Mystical Life - Volume II: On Virtue & the Christian Life

On the Mystical Life - Volume II: On Virtue & the Christian LifeSt. Symeon the New Theologion Abbot of the Monastery of St. Mammas in Constantinople at the turn of the eleventh century, St. Symeon was perhaps the most forceful advocate of the mystical experience of God in the history of the Byzantine church. His writings were sometimes suppressed by ecclesiastical authorities wary of his fierce enthusiasm, as well as his claims to charismatic authority, but they have endured and continued, to play a vital role in

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A new edition of our Life of Saint Anthony the Great now includes the Liturgical Service written for him

Gregory speaks of the joys and frustrations of his life

Blessed Theophylact

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The translation is crisp and readable

organized thematically under headings such as spiritual warfare

Follows Russian usage

This full and eminently readable biography traces the course of St

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