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The Spiritual Life and How to Be Attuned to It: Letters on the Christian Life

The Spiritual Life and How to Be Attuned to It: Letters on the Christian Life

Dueck, Maik
Recluse, Theophan The

Paperback

Christian LivingGeneral Christianity

ISBN13: 9798186068327
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 7 2026
Pages: 330
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
What is the spiritual life, and how do I begin?
In the 1870s a young woman of Moscow society put that question to one of Russia's greatest spiritual directors, and received eighty remarkable letters in reply.
St. Theophan the Recluse (1815-1894), bishop, hermit, and translator of the Philokalia, answers her with warmth, humor, and startling directness: what body, soul, and spirit are; why worldly amusement leaves the heart empty; how grace works and how to give it room; how to pray without distraction, practice the Jesus Prayer and the remembrance of God, fight passionate thoughts, and order an ordinary day in the world around the one thing needful. A beloved classic of Eastern Orthodox spirituality and a masterpiece of practical spiritual direction, this course in the interior life was written not for monks but for a laywoman with a household, a social calendar, and doubts of her own - which is why it still reads as if addressed to you.

This edition is a complete new translation of all eighty letters, made directly from the Russian text of 1878, with an introduction and a translator's preface on the key terms of Theophan's teaching.

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