- Paperback: 366 pages
- Publisher: Saint Herman Pr (July 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1887904506
- ISBN-13: 978-1887904506
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 458 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,064,880 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Patristic literature provides an age-old, tried and tested model of spiritual life, foreign to fleeting fashions. Throughout the last two thousand years, Christ has raised up patristic writers who have defended that original model. In modern times, however, this model is being pushed aside, the taste for genuine mystical expression is disappearing, and the initial Christian impetus is being disfigured.
That is why the works of St. Theophan the Recluse are so vital for today. He keeps the ancient patristic model sharp and clear, presenting it in modern language. He speaks to contemporary people who have been exposed to new realities, and thus renders inestimable help in linking them to the original Christian impetus and revealing to them the way into the Heavenly Kingdom.
The works of St. Theophan changed the spiritual face of Russia in the 19th century. With the publication of his greatest work, THE PATH TO SALVATION, the English-speaking world now has the opportunity to benefit likewise from this powerful inheritance to the people of the modern age.
Saint Theophan the Recluse is first and foremost a Church Father for modern times. Deeply aware of the roots of the modern age, he reinterprets ancient patristic wisdom in order to adapt it to the needs of the modern unchurched mind, which has been divorced from the Orthodox philosophy of life and even from the rudimentary principles of practical Christianity.
This classic textbook of spiritual life, now being offered in its entirety for the first time in English, seems to have been sent directly to today's readers by the great Russian recluse himself. Every line breathes his profound psychological understanding, his intricate experience in spiritual struggle, and above all his love, compassion and all-consuming desire that every person might be saved. Inspiring the reader with a sober longing for acquiring the Kingdom of Heaven, St. Theophan provides an infallible system for taking the Kingdom by force, in a Christian life of grace and repentance.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Fortunate,
By Reijo Elsner (Ikast, Denmark) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Path to Salvation: A Manual of Spiritual Transformation (Paperback)
St. Theophan translated Philokalia and other works to Russian and had a vast correspondence during his 23 years as a recluse. Tha Path to Salvation is his main work in which he goes through the Christian life from cradle to grave; from birth to salvation.The practical instructions in the book are many: starting from the beginning of the Christian life, on turning towards God and the union with Him. 'Staying within', prayer, the meaning of the 'mysteries and sacraments' are all gone through thoroughly and spelled out as the unceasing work in remembering God. The death of the tyrant, the enemy, satan, what we normally call self, is one step on the way. Besides the instructions to the Christian life The Path to Salvation will give many clues to better understanding of the Patristic writings of Philokalia as well as to what is meant with concepts like the struggle, labour and work of the Christian life.
1.0 out of 5 stars
unfortunate.,
By Phillip Serradell (Northern California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Path to Salvation: A Manual of Spiritual Transformation (Paperback)
This book is unapproachable -The language is awkward and unclear & grasping the text only comes from severe concentration; I don't presuppose that a book on spirtual transformation be easy - it shouldn't - but there is a difference between the meaning being difficult to understand and the text being an eye sore to comprehend; the book is the later. I blame neither Fr. Rose nor St. Theophan but rather the marriage of the two; the Russian Orthodox tend to be wordy and repetitive while Fr. Rose has never been a natural writer of fluidity or sound execution.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Eye-opening reading,
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This review is from: The Path to Salvation: A Manual of Spiritual Transformation (Paperback)
Christians in the West, immune to Kierkegaard's critcisms and unable to see past so much of what passes as popular-consmmer Christianity (WWJD?), all too often search in vain for more meaningful spiritual reading. Bonhoeffer is an obvious example of someone who has been able to fill that need, but for my taste the Eastern Church, which most Westen Christians (Protestant, Evangelical, and Catholic) know almost nothing about, usually is able to rise to the occasion. This book is a perfect example of what I am talking about. Put down all your Lucado and Yancy, and try on for size a modern man who has "put away all things for the sake of Christ." The Recluse's prayerful insights and psychological depth will amaze you, and his devotion will take your breath away. This is the culture that gave us Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God is Within You (a Russian Fear and Trembling or Concluding Unscientific Postscript), and St. Theophan carries on and grows within that tradition of radical obedience to the lure of God in service, prayer, and silence. I cannot give this small book more praise.
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