Three stages are discerned in contemplative practice, namely catharsis (purification), [7][8] contemplation proper, and the vision of God. Contemplative practices have a prominent place in Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy, and have gained a renewed interest in …

Hesychasm is a traditional complex of ascetical practices embedded in the doctrine and practice of the Orthodox Church and intended to purify the member of the Orthodox Church and to make him ready for an encounter with God that comes to him when and if …

transpersonal theory. This paper is an introduction to the mystical pathways of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. It is informed by seminal literature and scriptures, several years of participant observation and depth interviews of Eastern Orthodox practitioners (mystics, monks and hermits),

Theology and Mysticism in the Tradition of the Eastern Church by Vladimir Lossky. It is our intention, in the following essay, to study certain aspects of eastern spirituality in relation to the fundamental themes of the Orthodox dogmatic tradition.

2009年6月5日 · From Roots of Christian Mysticism: Eastern Orthodox Tradition: [PDF file.] In The Mystical Theology of Eastern Church, Vladimir Lossky writes: The eastern tradition has never made a sharp distinction between mysticism and theology; between personal experience of the divine mysteries and the dogma affirmed by the Church.

There are many strands to Eastern Orthodox mysticism; this paper briefly examines a few significant areas such as Theosis, Hesychasm, the “Jesus Prayer”, Spiritual Fathers and Light Mysticism. As early as the second century, the East developed a distinct approach to theology which included mysticism.

Orthodox philosophy and theology. St Gregory Palamas would not be influential nor important for us today, if he had been born somewhere else, at some other time, or if indeed his main adversary in the debates, Monk Varlaam (or Barlaam) of Calabria (1290-1348, who, later in life, became the Roman Catholic Bishop of Gerace) did not attack, with pa...

2014年2月1日 · At the end of the day his book The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church remains a powerful testimony to the beauty and stature of Orthodox thought, not so much because it gives us an unchallengeable account of either Cappadocian trinitarianism, or Dionysian epistemology, or Neo-Palamite anthropology, because quite simply it does not work ...

using the language of mysticism, remains open to the sense that it bears in Western use, the realization that, if anyone enters into a profound relationship with God—one that seeks God for himself and is impatient of settling for any

2017年11月14日 · Mysticism, expressed mainly by Neoplatonism (2nd-6th century AD) and other related systems, has as its basis the principle of ideology, the view that the soul pre-existed in the world of ideas and that, through various ways, it must be distanced from the body and return to the unborn world of ideas.