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Back to SearchLadder of Divine Ascent - Step Three and Four
Season 2 Episode 4
On Exile:detachment from relations and absolute value of commitment to Christ; the necessity of humility and avoiding corrupting influence of demons …
13 years, 3 months ago
Ladder of Divine Ascent - Step Two and Three
Season 2 Episode 3
Applying St. John's Teaching to Daily Life in the World
Detachment:
John does not hide the difficulty of the struggle ahead for those who have ent…
13 years, 3 months ago
Ladder of Divine Ascent - Step One and Two
Season 2 Episode 2
Ladder of Divine Ascent; St. John Climacus; Renunciation; Detachment
13 years, 3 months ago
Ladder of Divine Ascent - Introduction and Step One
Season 2 Episode 1
Ladder of Divine Ascent and St. John Climacus, History and background; structure and emphases of the work; What does the Ladder mean for those living…
13 years, 3 months ago
Philokalic Spirituality in a Post-Modern Culture
Season 1 Episode 14
A study on the anthropology of Saint Gregory Palamas. The theology of the person, as this is revealed in the hesychast ascetic tradition, is the mos…
13 years, 4 months ago
Nous Part Ten - Theoretic Nous and Deified Nous
Season 1 Episode 13
Theosis and Deification - "Mind that sees God"; cannot reached blessed state unless passing through practical stage of asceticism and purification; f…
13 years, 4 months ago
Nous Part Nine - Nous in Temptation and Battle
Season 1 Episode 12
Stages of Temptation; Inventiveness of the Demons and their strategies; Examining one's falls, their causes and committing them to memory; knowing on…
13 years, 4 months ago
Nous Part Eight - Prayer, Asceticism, Dispassion
Season 1 Episode 11
Prayer; Body and its place in purifying the nous through asceticism; necessity of asceticism; impassioned nous and dispassionate nous; contemporary q…
13 years, 4 months ago
Nous Part Seven - Prayer That Transcends the Passions and Conceptual Thoughts
Prayer and the Apophatic tradition; imageless and without conceptual thoughts or the use of imagination; perceived and real differences from Western …
13 years, 4 months ago
Nous Part Six - Prayer and the Cultivation of the Soul, Fathers Understand of Demons
Prayer and the Purification of the Nous; Critique of Centering Prayer; The Fathers Understanding of Demons; Demons in the Desert; Snares of the Demon…
13 years, 5 months ago