by cutsinger | Jan 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
I am planning once again to offer a short course during USC’s upcoming “Maymester” (9-27 May 2011) on the contemplative spirituality of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. As was the case last year “Mysteries of the Christian East” will focus...
by cutsinger | Jan 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
You ask whether I would have become Orthodox even if I’d lived in the tenth century “when there were no fully developed forms of mystical practice”. I’m afraid you picked the wrong century if your aim was to show the absence of Hesychasm at...
by cutsinger | Jan 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
Which comes first: liberation from the world or liberation from ourselves? I can see why you ask this, though it seems to me a mistake to suppose that the transformations in question are part of a strictly linear process or that the two freedoms are merely sequential....
by cutsinger | Dec 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
The Gospel and Holy Tradition are very clear on this subject: one can, and should, pray for all needs: physical, psychological, and spiritual. But I confess I’m like you in this respect. I too have always found it difficult to ask God for something that’s...
by cutsinger | Dec 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
You’re puzzled, you say, by what seems an oxymoron. Filled with admiration for the many holy men and women of Russia who lived during the century and a half preceding the Revolution and “who spent their lives getting as close to God as they could and...
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