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What Is the Spiritual Life and How to Be Attuned to It
Что есть духовная жизнь и как на нее настроиться
Eighty letters to a young woman, E. A. Arnoldi, daughter of an estate manager from Tula, who after a ball began to wonder about the meaning of life. Theophan first sets out the three dimensions of the human being—body, soul and spirit, the last shown in the fear of God, conscience and thirst for God—explains the Fall and the grace of baptism, and then guides his correspondent step by step: preparing for confession and communion, unceasing remembrance of God, prayer with the mind in the heart, the struggle with the passions, reading, household tasks, music and amusements. It is the author's most widely read book and a classic of spiritual direction for laypeople.
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English
The Spiritual Life and How to Be Attuned to It
St. Paisius Abbey / St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, 1995
ISBN 9780938635369
Русский
Theophan the Recluse
Что есть духовная жизнь и как на нее настроиться?
The Conscious LibraryЧто есть духовная жизнь и как на нее настроиться?
Tipo-litografía I. Efímov, Moscú, 1897
Theophan the Recluse
Что есть духовная жизнь и как на нее настроиться? Письма
The Conscious LibraryЧто есть духовная жизнь и как на нее настроиться? Письма
Otchi dom, Moscú, 2012
ISBN 5873011206
Edición que reproduce Azbuka very (ISBN según su ficha de fuente).
Other works by Theophan the Recluse
- The Philokalia (Dobrotolubie) in Russian translation, enlarged, 5 vols · 1877
- The Path to Salvation: A Brief Outline of Ascetics · 1868
- 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- Unpublished letters (to I. D. Andreyev, to 'S. V.' and others)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. Что есть духовная жизнь и как на нее настроиться. 1.ª ed. 1878; ed. Moscú: Otchi dom, 2012 (ISBN 5-87301-120-6). Ochenta cartas a E. A. Arnoldi. Texto en Azbuka very.
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