Title: Just Another Armchair Ascetic
Product review: This is not worth the paper it is printed on. There are a litany of saints in the Eastern Orthodox Church that subscribed to the toll-house model which serves splendidly to illustrate the Orthodox teaching of further spiritual movement after death. The bottom line is that most contemporary Orthodox armchair theologians (and remember, in Orthodoxy a theologian is defined as one who prays, not as one who studies theories on the interior life!) are in awe of the influence of Father Seraphim's life and EXAMPLE on contemporary Orthodoxy. A brilliant and fearless ascetic who sacrificed everything for union with Christ (something rare indeed in Western culture!) he truly embodied what he taught. It is from that position that his writings have an authority and authenticity that other "spiritual" writers lack.
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