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 Book: Orthodox Spirituality: A Practical Guide for the Faithful and A Definitive Manual for the Scholar, Fr. Dimitru Staniloae
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Orthodox spirituality has as its goal the deification of man and his
union with God, without being merged with Him. It has as a basic
conviction the existence of a personal God, who is the supreme source of
radiating love. He prizes man and doesn't want to confuse him with
Himself, but maintains and raises him to an eternal dialogue of love.
Such a spirituality has no place where an evolutionary progress of man,
connected to a divinity conceived as an impersonal essence, is affirmed.
This progress can have no result other than man's disappearance in the
impersonal divinity. But the personal God, and thus the supreme source
of love, can't be conceived of as a single person, but as a community of
persons in a perfect unity. You see then why the Christian teaching of a
Trinity of Persons in a unity of essence is the only one which can
constitute the basis of a perfect spirituality for man, understood as a
full communion with God in love, without his being lost in it. --Foreward, Alexander Golubov. Published by St Tikhon's Seminary Press. 397pps.
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