with inner subjectivity possess an immediate appeal. He exploits to the full the language of feeling and conscious awareness, employing as his key words plerophoria (“confidence” or “assurance”: cf. 1 Thess. 1:5), aisthesis (“sensation” or “feeling”), peira (“experience”), energeia (“energy”) and dynamis (“power”). Christianity, as Macarius understands it, involves much more than assent to reasoned arguments or outer obedience to a moral code. It consists above all in the awakening of our spiritual