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1 Types,AboutAuthor| hospitality. (For a detailed life, see Fr. Sergei Hackel's
2 Types,Intro | multifaceted nature of Christian life. On the other hand, when
3 Types,Intro | classifying types of religious life within Orthodoxy one must
4 Types,Intro | more types of religious life. It is very difficult to
5 Types,1 | understanding of the spiritual life. If, however, one makes
6 Types,1 | to some extent arbitrary. Life is much more complex than
7 Types,1 | moral attributes, its way of life (and even its special skills),
8 Types,1 | current problems of Church life.~
9 Types,2 | itself changed. Spiritual life was pushed into the background,
10 Types,2 | churchmanship and a special way of life. For generation after generation
11 Types,2 | separate from the rest of life. People went there when
12 Types,2 | passion of true religious life. It attracted to itself
13 Types,2 | disintegration of the spiritual life. The all-powerful arm of
14 Types,2 | their morals and way of life, and they were turned into
15 Types,2 | understanding of ecclesiastical life and religious ways, we developed
16 Types,2 | based on a very solid way of life, and this way of life, in
17 Types,2 | of life, and this way of life, in turn, was nourished
18 Types,2 | arts, nor in the way of life. Everything was strongly
19 Types,2 | synodal type of religious life, which promoted other values
20 Types,2 | of the State, of a way of life and of a particular tradition,
21 Types,2 | experience a Christianization of life, where the principle of
22 Types,2 | shallowly rooted in the Church's life. It was more a phenomenon
23 Types,2 | Church's historic way of life, they could not, of course,
24 Types,2 | Synodal Period, its way of life, its art, its clergy, its
25 Types,2 | of the new conditions of life and continuing to preach
26 Types,2 | problems of the Church's life. In the first place, life
27 Types,2 | life. In the first place, life today demands creative efforts
28 Types,3 | The next type of religious life, that of the strict ritualist,
29 Types,3 | place, away from the flow of life, one moment in the development
30 Types,3 | of the Christian way of life, preferring torture and
31 Types,3 | theanthropic, deifying sacramental life. Only the splendid form
32 Types,3 | subordination of the inner life to an external rhythm which
33 Types,3 | significance of every detail of life. He keeps the fast. He lives
34 Types,3 | rhythm to his spiritual life. This is what is important,
35 Types,3 | Such a person's spiritual life is worked out in the smallest
36 Types,3 | of one's inner and outer life -- even a certain kind of
37 Types,3 | thing which this way of life does not achieve is, of
38 Types,3 | of the strict ritualist's life. The strict ritualist knows
39 Types,3 | the general rhythm of his life, that it has become part
40 Types,3 | beyond its strength. If life has passed it by and given
41 Types,3 | better regulate one's whole life, where finally, the entire
42 Types,3 | and who govern their whole life according to the rules.
43 Types,3 | those which are raised by life: whether the Church must
44 Types,4 | upper strata of Russian life and the entry of a large
45 Types,4 | the foundation of Church life is its beauty, this person
46 Types,4 | rhythm into his own inner life. Like the strict ritualist,
47 Types,4 | his own personal way of life and sees in this his greatest
48 Types,4 | aesthetic type of religious life. Nor, would it seem, is
49 Types,4 | strong influence on the life of the Church in all its
50 Types,4 | stressful and agonizing life experience turns to the
51 Types,4 | its harsh intensity. Our life today certainly demands
52 Types,4 | profane masses with its very life. The crowd will shout: "
53 Types,4 | social struggle; our way of life has been ruined; we have
54 Types,4 | answers to questions of life and death: O Jesus, save
55 Types,4 | ability to admire beauty.~But life itself is a thing of great
56 Types,4 | between the Church and real life. The aesthetically-minded
57 Types,4 | bitterness, the ugliness of life. They will cease to believe
58 Types,4 | surrogate for religious life, some small dollop of good
59 Types,4 | again Christ lays down his life for his friends.~What is
60 Types,4 | believers together for a common life. One thing only is permitted:
61 Types,4 | acts of love, without a life of open spiritual struggle,
62 Types,4 | every experience of its life~
63 Types,5 | ascetic type of religious life is not unique to Christianity.
64 Types,5 | that those periods in the life of the Church which have
65 Types,5 | talent. Since religious life demands of man sacrifice
66 Types,5 | at its deepest, creative life is also a way of asceticism,
67 Types,5 | characteristic type of religious life was actually anti-ascetic.~
68 Types,5 | eternal depths of religious life. But apart from such genuine
69 Types,5 | out the ascetic ideal in life. These can be of various
70 Types,5 | curb his habits, order his life -- and all this to develop
71 Types,5 | the goal of the Christian life and divides, as it were,
72 Types,5 | and authentic Christian life. The Church crowns her saints
73 Types,5 | incorruptible crown of eternal life. It promises Paradise, the
74 Types,5 | sacrificial love, laying down his life for his friends: he is doing
75 Types,5 | their particular concern in life may be, within their conscience
76 Types,5 | they are from the genuine life of the world, the more the
77 Types,5 | asceticism can play in the life of the Church? Perhaps this
78 Types,5 | path within the distorted life of this world, the greater
79 Types,5 | not affected contemporary life. Yet at the same time we
80 Types,5 | participation in such a petty life can change anything in it.~
81 Types,5 | strange law of the spiritual life, whereby everything that
82 Types,6 | evangelical way of spiritual life, which is as eternal as
83 Types,6 | evangelical way of religious life. Obviously it has no relation
84 Types,6 | desire to "Christify" all of life. To a certain degree this
85 Types,6 | taken to mean the placing of life within the framework of
86 Types,6 | subordination of one's personal life experience to the schedule
87 Types,6 | churchliness" into one's way of life, even elements of the Church'
88 Types,6 | Furthermore, Christ's earthly life is nothing other than the
89 Types,6 | symbol of man's interior life, was likewise sanctified
90 Types,6 | the whole of man's inner life.~On the other hand, one
91 Types,7 | preparation for the unavoidable life of sacrifice along the Christian
92 Types,7 | love the idea of one's own life simply because it is one'
93 Types,7 | path on earth. One can love life itself both passionately
94 Types,7 | very presence of spiritual life? Its criterion is self-denying
95 Types,7 | various pathways of human life? What are their prototypes,
96 Types,7 | mankind. The path of his later life -- the preaching, the miracles,
97 Types,7 | down his soul (AV, RSV: life) for his friends" (Jn. 15:
98 Types,7 | the word "soul" here as "life." Christ is speaking here
99 Types,7 | is an estrangement from life not only in the transient,
100 Types,7 | eternal and incorruptible life of the age to come.~These
101 Types,7 | two of them, and in real life they are frequently confused:
102 Types,7 | however, the laws of spiritual life are the exact opposite of
103 Types,7 | will call some to eternal life because they showed him
104 Types,7 | the center of the Church's life there is this sacrificial,
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