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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...

another person.135 An enemy can never really be removed or cut-off from one’s own true being.136 All human persons have one and the same nature. We all share in the same nature of our common father Adam, as well as in the human nature of the Son of God, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.137 In dogmatic terms one could say that our common human nature, as created ‘in the image and likeness’ of the Holy Trinity, is ‘consubstantial’ or ‘homoousios’ (ὁμοούσιος) with that of Adam and every man, including
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