Spiritual Counsels: Select Passages from "My Life in Christ" - Softcover

Father John Of Kronstadt; W. Jardine Grisbrooke

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0913836923 ISBN 13: 9780913836927

Publisher: St Vladimirs Seminary Pr, 1967

Synopsis

The nineteenth century in Russia was a time of considerable religious revival. Many thousands of ordinary people of all classes and callings flocked to elders or startsi for spiritual, and also temporal, advice. These startsi, who exercised a remarkable ministry, were generally monks, but one of the most famous Father John of Kronstadt was not a monk, but a married parish priest, rector of a large cathedral in the naval port of Kronstadt. The practical and down-to-earth teaching of this charismatic Russian pastor reveals him as a man of action as well as prayer. His spiritual counsel brought mental, physical and spiritual healing to thousands during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These selected passages from his book My Life in Christ focus on the purpose, manner and difficulty of prayer, the help of the church in heaven and on earth, sin and forgiveness, spiritual life and spiritual warfare, and the last things. They have been edited and translated from the original 300,000-word volume that continues to have a deep and widespread influence on Russian spirituality. The present volume conveys in English the essential qualities of a great spiritual master whose own life was a powerful example of the Christianity he preached so persuasively.

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About the Author:

David Hein is Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Hood College. He is the author of Geoffrey Fisher: Archbishop of Canterbury, 1945-1961 (James Clarke & Co, 2007) and co-author with Gardiner H. Shattuck Jr. of The Episcopalians (2005). Charles R. Henery is Director of Spiritual Life at St John's Northwestern Military Academy and Priest-in-Charge of the Church of St. John Chrysostom in Delafield, Wisconsin. He is the editor of A Speaking Life: The Legacy of John Keble (1995) and of Beyond the Horizon: Frontiers for Mission (1986).

About this edition

• Publisher: St Vladimirs Seminary Pr
• Publication date: 1967
• ISBN 10: 0913836923
• ISBN 13: 9780913836927
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 230