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THE ILLNESS AND CURE OF THE SOUL
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THE ILLNESS AND CURE OF THE SOUL IN THE ORTHODOX TRADITION
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19,5cm x 12cm
Pages: 184

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Greece _ USA

COVER ART
Yannis
Yeremtzes
 
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CONTENTS:
  • INTRODUCTION
  • FIRST MEETING - FIRST ACQUAINTANCE
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  • The sermon
  • Meeting at the parish center
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    1. ORTHODOXY AS A THERAPEUTIC METHOD
    2. How I was led to the conclusion that Orthodoxy is a therapeutic treatment
    3. Orthodoxy is a therapeutic science
    4. Orthodox faith is connected with cure
    5. Two kinds of faith
    6. Orthodox Theology
    7. Differences between Orthodoxy and other confessions
    8. Theology is not philosophy
    9. Orthodoxy and psychology
    10. Theology and religion
      11.

    11. THE ILLNESS OF THE SOUL
    12. A clear idea about Orthodoxy
    13. The soul of man
    14. Soul and body
    15. What exactly the illness of the soul is
    16. Nous and reason
    17. The Fall of man
    18. Locating the illness is a necessity
    19. The darkness of the nous-a consequence of the Fall
    20. Phantasy-another consequence of the Fall
    21. Emotion and how it is cured
    22. The movement of the nous according to nature, contrary to nature and above nature
      23.
    Fr. Hierotheos uses quotations from the Church Fathers and many saints to support his conviction that man's soul suffers illness which distorts his relationship with God, his fellow men and nature - to be curedin the hospital of the Church. Presented in the form of a discussion, the contents was used in a lecture series at the St. John of Damascus Faculty of Theology, University of Balamand.
    1. THE CURE OF THE SOUL
    2. People uncured, being cured and already cured
    3. How the cure of the Saints is meant
    4. Cure is the illumination of the nous
    5. Ways of cure
      1. Orthodox faith
      2. Being aware of our illness
      3. The Orthodox therapist-priest
      4. About the term "therapist"
      5. The basic work of the priest
      6. Baptism and cure
      7. Two kinds of Baptism
      8. Mysteries and ascesis
      9. Priesthood and the stages of spiritual life
      10. Connection between theology and spiritual fatherhood
      11. The deified
      12. The difference between a spiritual father and a psychologist
      13. Is it likely that a spiritual father becomes an idol?
        14.
      14. The Orthodox therapeutic method or Orthodox asceticism
      15. Purification, illumination, theosis
      16. Separating nous from reason
      17. Watchfulness and prayer
      18. Noetic hesychia
      19. Noetic hesychia - "the way" to theosis
      20. Our age is anti-hesychastic
      21. St.Gregory Palamas on hesychia
      22. The Theotokos-the perfect model of a hesychast
      23. Phantasy
      24. Logismoi
      25. The Passions
      26. Dispassion
      27. Sacramental and ascetic life
      28. Noetic prayer and prayer of the intellect

    1. KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
    2. Natural and spiritual knowledge
    3. The three kinds of knowledge according to St. Isaac the Syrian
    4. Knowledge according to St.Gregory Palamas
    5. Theoria-vision of God
    6. Degrees of theoria
      7.

    7. ORTHODOX MONASTICISM
    8. How the Orthodox Tradition changed
    9. Orthodox Monasticism-a manifestation of Orthodox Tradition
    10. Life on the Holy Mountain as representing the Orthodox way of life
    11. Monasticism and the cure of the soul
    12. Apostolic communities
    13. Western and Orthodox Monasticism
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    14. THE ORTHODOX TRADITION
    15. The Orthodox Tradition is connected with cure
    16. Liturgical arts and man's cure
    17. Customs and how they are related with man's cure
      18.
  • CONCLUSION
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