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A Beginner’s Guide to Spirituality: The Orthodox Path to a Deeper Relationship with God is unavailable, but you can change that!

Genuine spirituality keeps us in balance with God, our neighbor, and the material world. Michael Keiser walks us through the Orthodox Church’s timeless teachings and practices on the ancient understanding of Christian spirituality with humor and keen insight. He outlines how ascetic practices, personal and corporate worship, confession and repentance, overcoming the passions, and opening...

the Holy Spirit to all who believe in Christ. There was an increased reflection upon the role of the Holy Spirit in our sanctification, and it began to be taught that the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit mentioned in the Old Testament (Isaiah 11:2–3) were specifically given to believers at baptism/confirmation, as were the gifts of the Spirit mentioned by St. Paul (1 Corinthians 12). Spirituality was an area of theological speculation. During the Middle Ages the word “spirituality” was used in a variety
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