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Orthodox Spiritual Life according to Saint Silouan the Athonite is unavailable, but you can change that!

St. Silouan the Athonite’s teaching is particularly relevant today. In this study, Harry Boosalis systematically presents St. Silouan’s teaching on Orthodox spiritual life, illustrating his modern relevance. Boosalis compares St. Silouan’s teaching with the writings of the Church Fathers, demonstrating how it is based on traditional patristic sources, as well as highlighting its more original...

defeat of the cosmic forces of evil and thereby affects the destiny of the entire world.69 When man is able to humble himself in this way, he is then conformed to the divine image in which he is created. He becomes Christ-like when he shares in Christ’s divine humility.70 Through humility man ‘puts on Christ’. This is the reason why the believer is called by His name: ‘Christian’. By ‘emptying’ himself in imitation of Christ, the believer participates in the life of Christ, partaking through grace
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