Saint Theophan the Recluse Answers to the Intellectuals’ Queries. Vol. 2 Translated from Russian by Adrian & Xenia Tanasescu-Vlas The Christian life resembles with climbing to a hill. The one who climbs tires to uphill, but, as he climbs, increasingly to him it is revealed more and more things, for his skyline becomes even larger. The same happens in Christianity: the more is one advanced in Christian life, the much wider becomes the sphere of the spiritual ones as is accessible to his mind and perception. Truly wise is only the one who perfected himself in the Christian life; without living Christianly, you will understand nothing from Christianity. What is known mentally about Christianity, without having a Christian life, does not resemble at all to the reality of things. No matter how amply and eloquently you’d recount, for instance, what kind of taste has the pineapple, you cannot truly realize until you taste it yourself; the same with the Christian teaching - as long as you does not apply it in your life, under no circumstance you’ll arise till its taste. Format: 13 x 20 cm, 200 p. ISBN: 978-973-7623-97-3 “Russian Fathers” «« back