Menu
Search
£0.00
£0.00
View cart
Checkout »
£0.00
View digital cart
Finish order
Your account
Account
BIBLES
BOOKS
Calendars & Diaries
Cards
Childrens Books
Church Supplies
DVDs
Gift Product
Music
Software
Youth and Teens Books
Help and Assistance
Acceptable use policy
Delivery information
Privacy Policy
Returns information
Terms of use
×
On the Mystical Life: The Ethical Discourses Volume 1
The Church and the Last Things
St Symeon the New Theologian
0.00
Share this:
Limited Availability
Out of Stock at supplier. We have 0 copies.
Retail price:
£12.99
Your price:
£12.99
Add to cart
Product details
Reviews
Authors
St Symeon the New Theologian was abbot of the monastery of St Mamas in Constantinople at the turn of the eleventh century. He was also perhaps the most remarkable and certainly the most forceful advocate of the mystical experience of God in the history of the Byzantine Church. Though they were on occasion suppressed by ecclesiastical authorities wary of his fierce enthusiasm, as well as his claims to charismatic authority, St Symeon's writings survived in the Orthodox Church and continued to play a vital role in the several renewals of spiritual life and prayer which has sustained the Church in its often difficult history over the past millennium. The treatises on the mystical life, usually rendered as The Ethical Discourses, comprise St Symeon's most extensive treatment of the experience of God. They are also appearing here, in this and two following volumes, for the first time in English. Volume I selects those treatises devoted to the Church, the sacraments and the last things. Symeon discusses salvation history from creation leading to the glory of the eschaton. He includes a special section on the cosmic dimension of salvation, the experience of the rapture in the "third heaven" by the apostle Paul, who saw, heard, tasted, smelled and felt the one Light which is God. Addressing such themes as predestination, the knowledge of the saints in the world to come, the day of judgment as the "day of the Lord," and the experience of the sacraments, St Symeon's theology is a summation of a lifelong study of the Scriptures and fathers, of an immersion in the liturgical life of the Church and of lived experience.
Categories
Products
»
BOOKS
»
Doctrine and Theology
»
General
Products
»
BOOKS
»
Doctrine and Theology
»
General
ISBN
: 9780881411423
Producer
:
St Vladamir's Seminary Press
Product Code
: 10071272
Dimensions
: 127 x 178 mm
Binding
: Paperback
Number of pages
: 193
Release Date
: 01.01.1995
Write a review for this product
Comments
You must be logged in add a product review.
St Symeon the New Theologian
St Symeon the New Theologian
Visit this contributor's page »
On the Mystical
Life: The Ethical Discourses Volume 2
Paperback:
£12.99
On the Mystical
Life: The Ethical Discourses Volume 3
Paperback:
£12.99
Divine Eros
Paperback:
£19.99