Struggle to Know God
The Correspondence of Father Sophroni with D. Balfour
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This volume collects correspondence between Elder Sophrony and David Balfour during Balfour’s search for Orthodox faith and spiritual stability.
The letters address repentance, noetic prayer, obedience, spiritual warfare, divine grace, and the dangers of rationalistic speculation.
They also reveal Sophrony’s understanding of pastoral guidance and his self-emptying love for a struggling spiritual child.
The correspondence contrasts empirical hesychastic theology with scholastic approaches to Christianity.
It provides an unusually direct record of Sophrony’s own spiritual experiences while he was still living as a monk on Mount Athos.
The letters address repentance, noetic prayer, obedience, spiritual warfare, divine grace, and the dangers of rationalistic speculation.
They also reveal Sophrony’s understanding of pastoral guidance and his self-emptying love for a struggling spiritual child.
The correspondence contrasts empirical hesychastic theology with scholastic approaches to Christianity.
It provides an unusually direct record of Sophrony’s own spiritual experiences while he was still living as a monk on Mount Athos.
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Discussed by Metropolitan Hierotheos as the published correspondence through which Sophrony guided David Balfour in Orthodox spiritual life.
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