Saint Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022) : life, spirituality, doctrine Krivocheine, Archbishop Basil creator text xx Crestwood, NY St. Vladimir's Seminary Press 1986 9999 monographic und eng

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411 p. ; 22 cm. Part one : Life and character of Symeon -- "The brother-loving poor man" -- "An Abbot of most untamable zeal" -- "The new theologian" -- Part two : The ways of God -- Repentance -- Prayer -- Spiritual direction and fatherhood -- The Holy Eucharist -- Confession and the priesthood -- Sacramental baptism and baptism in the spirit -- Monasticism and the world -- Part three : Knowledge of God -- The conscious mystical experience -- Personal experience and the tradition of the church -- Theology and the knowledge of God -- The unknowable God made manifest -- The dialectic of divine union -- Part four : God with us -- The vision of light -- Christ -- The Holy Spirit -- The Holy Trinity -- The mystery of salvation -- The mother of God -- The church -- Part five : Toward deification -- Ecstasy -- "Apatheia" or dispassion -- Divine love or eros -- Charity or love -- Deification. Archbishop Basil Krivocheine Orthodox Eastern Church.Theology, Doctrinal.History BX395.S9 .V3613 1986 97809138369100913836915 220820