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Studia Theologica No. II (XVIII) / 2024 Saint Basil the Great: Vigilance and its Fruits in the Life of the Church Hieromonk Agapie Corbu

This study analyses Saint Basil the Great’s teaching on vigilance as a means of unifying the mind and the person, examining three stages corresponding to his life: his pre-Christian education through classical learning, his monastic life, and his episcopate. The four defining elements — living in the presence of the Lord, a focused mind, remembrance of God and gratitude — are presented as the foundation of personal, communal and ecclesiastical unity.

Studia Theologica No. I (XIII) / 2022 Saint Gregory Palamas’s contribution to Hesychasm. Theological premises of life in the Holy Spirit Professor (Dr), Emeritus Dimitrie Țelenghídis

Saint Gregory Palamas defends and theologically systematises the Hesychast teaching on uncreated grace, the theophany (θεοφάνεια) and the vision of God (θεοπτία), demonstrating that the light of Tabor, experienced by Hesychasts through the purification of the heart and the observance of the commandments, is identical to charismatic deification, and that its essential anthropological premise is the renunciation of one’s own will in favour of God’s will.

Colloquium No. I (XIII) / 2022 Interview with Protos. Clement Păunescu, Abbot of Slănic Monastery – Argeș Fr. Constantin Olariu

In a theological interview, an Orthodox abbot explores the fundamental role of prayer in the life of a Christian, beginning with the creation of man in the image of God and the Fall of Adam. Prayer is defined as the voluntary relinquishment of one’s own freedom to allow for divine intervention, whilst fasting, and the examples of Saint Gregory Palamas and Saint Joseph the Hesychast, illustrate the path to deification and salvation.

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