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The Path to Salvation: A Brief Outline of Ascetics
Путь ко спасению. Краткий очерк аскетики
Theophan regarded it as his main book. Born of his lectures in moral theology at St Petersburg and conceived as the third part of his Outline of Christian Moral Teaching, it describes in three sections how the Christian life begins—through baptism and through repentance—how the sinner is awakened by grace from his 'sleep' and comes to the decision to give himself to God, and how the new life then matures through zeal, the discipline of the faculties of soul and body, and prayer. Its opening definition, 'the Christian life is zeal and strength to abide in communion with God', sums up his whole method: a systematic asceticism meant for laypeople as much as for monks.
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English
Turning the Heart to God
Conciliar Press, 2001
ISBN 9781888212228
Traducción parcial de «El camino de la salvación».
The Path to Salvation: A Manual of Spiritual Transformation
St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, Platina (CA), 1996
Translation: Seraphim Rose y St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood
ISBN 9781887904506
Raising Them Right: A Saint's Advice on Raising Children
Conciliar Press, 1989
ISBN 9780962271304
Extractos sobre la educación de los hijos; prólogo de Peter E. Gillquist.
Русский
Theophan the Recluse
Путь ко спасению (Краткий очерк аскетики)
The Conscious LibraryПуть ко спасению (Краткий очерк аскетики)
Tipo-litografía I. Efímov, Moscú, 1899
Edición póstuma (facsímil en Wikimedia Commons); cinco ediciones en vida del autor.
Other works by Theophan the Recluse
- The Philokalia (Dobrotolubie) in Russian translation, enlarged, 5 vols · 1877
- What Is the Spiritual Life and How to Be Attuned to It · 1878
- Collected Letters (8 parts) · 1898
- Letters on the Christian Life · 1860
- Letters on the Spiritual Life · 1870
- Letters to Various Persons on Various Matters of Faith and Life · 1880
- On the Jesus Prayer, in Letters to Schema-Igumen Herman and Schemamonk Agapius · 1880
- Selected Letters on Sects and Heresies
- Last Counsels and Correspondence of the Last Year · 1894
- Letters to Tatiana Vladimirovna Netsvetaeva · 1887
- Letters to Archpriest Mikhail Kheraskov · 1892
- Unpublished letters (to I. D. Andreyev, to 'S. V.' and others)
- Four Homilies on Prayer · 1872
- Outline of Christian Moral Teaching · 1891
- Survey of the Religion under the Law · 1841
- Sermons of the Rector of the St Petersburg Academy · 1859
- Sermons to the Flock of Tambov · 1861
- Nine Homilies on the Fires in Tambov · 1860
- Sermons to the Flock of Vladimir · 1863
- The Inner Life (collected sermons) · 1859
- The Heavenly Protection over Us · 1865
- On Orthodoxy, with Warnings against Errors · 1863
- Reminder to Nuns of What Monasticism Requires of Them · 1892
- On Complete Conversion to God from the Seductions of the World and Sin · 1867
- On Repentance, Communion and Amendment of Life · 1869
- Resolving Perplexities on the Parable of the Unjust Steward · 1869
- Lessons from the Deeds and Words of the Lord · 1870
- Guidelines for Composing a Single Gospel History from the Four Gospels · 1871
- The Gospel History of God the Son Incarnate · 1885
- The Six Psalms (commentary) · 1871
- Commentary on Psalm 118
- Selected Psalms (commentaries) · 1881
- Commentary on the Shepherd of Hermas
- Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
- The Soul and the Angel Are Not Body but Spirit
- Contemplation and Reflection · 1869
- The God-Pleasing Life in General · 1893
- Our Relation to Churches · 1893
- Sermons for the Feasts of the Lord, the Mother of God and Solemn Days · 1883
- Five Teachings on the Path to Salvation · 1887
- Three Homilies on Bearing the Cross
- Without Effort You Will Not Be Saved · 1889
- Two Homilies on the Sacrament of Baptism · 1886
- A Brief Teaching on the Worship of God · 1845
- What the Penitent Who Has Entered the Good Path Needs · 1847
- Instruction on Progress in the Christian Life
- The Incarnate Economy: An Essay in Christian Psychology
- On the Publication of the Old Testament in Russian Translation · 1875
- On Our Duty to Hold to the Septuagint · 1876
- On the Use of the New Translation of the Old Testament and on the Hebrew Text · 1876
- Instruction for Preaching the Word of God · 1864
- Manuscripts from the Cell
- Address before the Funeral of Archimandrite Innocent · 1847
- Commentary on Romans · 1890
- Commentary on 1 Corinthians
- Commentary on 2 Corinthians
- Commentary on Galatians
- Commentary on Ephesians
- Commentary on Philippians
- Commentary on Colossians
- Commentary on 1 Thessalonians
- Commentary on 2 Thessalonians
- Commentary on 1 Timothy
- Commentary on 2 Timothy
- Commentary on Titus
- Commentary on Philemon
- Commentary on Hebrews (introduction) · 1896
- Unseen Warfare
- Ancient Monastic Rules (Pachomius, Basil, Cassian, Benedict) · 1892
- Discourses of Symeon the New Theologian
- Ancient Paterikon (and Palestinian paterikon) · 1847
- Miterikon (sayings of the Desert Mothers)
- The Spiritual Psalter of St Ephrem the Syrian · 1874
- The Holy Fathers on Prayer and Sobriety · 1881
- Awake, O Sleeper! (patristic anthology) · 1868
- Selected Hymns from the Octoechos
- The Lord's Prayer Explained in the Words of the Fathers
- The Art of Prayer (anthology of Igumen Chariton) · 1936
- Instructions on the Spiritual Life (anthology)
Sources
- Teófano el Recluso. Путь ко спасению. Краткий очерк аскетики. 1868–1869 (5 ediciones en vida). Texto en Azbuka very; facsímil de la ed. de 1899 en Wikimedia Commons.
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