ASIN: B00BK6M3OY
Publisher: Monastery of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos Eleusa
Pages: 205
The Holy Fathers have determined the stages of spiritual development: purification of the heart from passions, illumination of the mind, and deification. They very concretely describe the spiritual struggle as well as the spiritual occurrences at each of the stages respectively. With thorough reading and comparison of the works, one can even observe how a systematization of spiritual life according to the stages of development and according to the spiritual occurrences at each of the stages clearly surfaces and takes shape. This systematization has not been fully elaborated upon by any of the Fathers and it is the subject of a specific theological work, still it is yet another witness to the marvelous harmony in spiritual life in general. This systematization, although not fully defined, can be observed in the collected homilies in this book, because it is the theoretical basis both of ...
