#therapeutic theology

The text, taken from the book Do You Know Yourself? Spiritual Life and Psychological Problems, analyses the consequences of the gulf between one’s ideal image and one’s true self: the projection of one’s own faults onto others, psychological emptiness, self-contempt and dependence on the approval of others, proposing humility, repentance and divine grace as the only path to genuine healing.

This article proposes a diagnosis and a programme for remedying the ills of contemporary Greek education, identifying the root cause as the gradual estrangement of the people from Christ. Drawing on Canon 102 of the Quinisext Council, Saint Gregory Palamas, Saint Nicholas Cabasilas and Saint John of the Desert, the author argues that existential repentance and the sacramental life of the Church constitute the only effective remedy.

Dimitrie Țelenghidis, Professor of Dogmatic Theology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, provides theological answers to fourteen fundamental existential questions, translated from the original Greek booklet Δεκατέσσερα ὑπαρξιακὰ ἐρωτήματα. The topics covered include the purpose of creation, the salvific role of the Church and the Holy Sacraments, death and resurrection, freedom, abortion, suicide and the causes of the breakdown of the contemporary family.