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Spirituality
This is the foundations seminar. It deals with the great teachers of the ascetic life, in historical sequence. The students read primary texts that deal with the scriptural imagery and the description of the human constitution and challenges to the human being from the passions and from the demonic. Students will gain a greater knowledge of the traditional ways the human struggles to conform to divine grace and likeness. Primary texts are emphasized over modern synthesis.
The concerns of the authors we read are:
- Inspired and holy guidance;
- Basic human psychology in both the ancient more modern sense;
- An essential linkage in the process of every individual’s appropriation of liturgical and scriptural life of the Orthodox Church, an interpretation by an “art of living;”
- The beginning of a whole cycle of discipleship and formation in the faith for ministry. For these reasons it is foundational.