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Drawing from Scripture and patristic teachings, Dumitru Staniloae offers clear discussion of the goal of Orthodox spirituality and major steps of the spiritual life. Part one of this text covers purification, part two talks about illumination, and part three, perfection. Here in translation from the original Romanian, the text retains its informal and conversational style. Staniloae notes,...

With progress, faith becomes the fear of God.113 On the one hand, faith isn’t born from the fear of God, but fear from faith, because to be afraid of Him, you must believe in Him. On the other hand, faith can’t develop without going through fear, or maybe, even helped from the beginning by fear (Acts 2:37). So even at the beginning faith isn’t purely theoretical, but has, by the fear which goes with it, an existential character. Faith which hasn’t reached
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