John of Kronstadt, st Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self Translated from Russian by Adrian Tanasescu-Vlas This work, one of the last books written by St. John of Kronstadt to be published during his lifetime, sums up the practical expertise achieved by the great director and ascetic over half a century spent in the service of God and his fellow people, a true “guidebook of spiritual life” as the author intended it to be. Maybe the most accurate assessment of the importance of the saint’s writings is the one made by Father George Florovsky, the reputed Russian theologian: “This is the diary of a contemplative, not of a moralist. And his prayer is not the expression of his lyricism, or merely of the aspiration of his soul, but an encounter with God, the breath of the Spirit, a spiritual reality… Father John opens again the forgotten path towards knowing God by experience, and this spiritual and Eucharistic experience overcomes any theological psychologism.” Format: 13x20 cm; 136 p. ISBN: 978-973-136-214-4 “Russian Fathers” «« back