The Christian scriptures, insofar as they are the founding narrative of the Christian church, provide many key stories and concepts that become important for Christian mystics in all later generations: practices such as the Eucharist, baptism and the Lord's Prayer all become activities that take on importance for both their ritual and symbolic ...

The individual experiences of the greatest mystics of the Orthodox Church more often than not remain unknown to us. Apart from a few rare exceptions the spiritual literature of the Christian East possesses scarcely any autobiographical account dealing with the interior life, such as those of Angela of Foligno and Henry Suso, or the Histoire d ...

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 …

basic claim in this paper is that the eastern branch of Christianity, or Eastern Orthodox Christianity, has preserved and developed over the centuries a mystical theology and practice that may enrich and perhaps expand what eastern religions have contributed so far to the emergence of transpersonal theory.

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.

2020年3月14日 · The seminar started in March 2002 as an attempt to investigate Jewish mystical traditions in the eastern Christian theological and liturgical texts. It was thought that the seminar would help initiate and inspire the discussion about the Jewish influences on eastern Christian mysticism among a broader audience.

Orthodox Christianity warns against experiences that do not point to or harmonize with Scripture’s teaching on God, His holiness, and His plan of redemption through Christ. In conclusion, Christian mysticism can deviate from orthodox Christianity by prioritizing experiential knowledge over Scriptural truth, sometimes blurring distinctions ...

Mysticism within Christianity is biblical. It is seen in Jesus’s virgin birth, the miracles he performed, his resurrection, and on the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit fell upon the multitude and all spoke in tongues.

Freedom (ελευθερία as προαίρεσις, το εφ’ημίν and αυτεξούσιον) for the Orthodox is not only the key to understanding the reason for the provision of choice in Paradise (Genesis 3), and many other divine actions throughout the Holy Bible, but also the sine qua non of wider Orthodox mysticism, asceticism ...

The mystics of the Eastern Church included the Church Fathers, for in those days the theologians were among the most spiritual of Christians, and the phenomena of mysticism was evident in all levels of clergy, monks, and laity.