theophan the recluse
1Theophan the Recluse — St. Theophan the Recluse, also known as Theophan Zatvornik (Russian: Феофан Затворник), (1815 ndash;1894) is a well known saint in the Russian Orthodox Church. He was born George Vasilievich Govorov, in the village of Chernavsk. His father was a… …
2Theophan Goworow — (russisch Феофан Говоров, bürgerlicher Name Георгий Васильевич Говоров/ Georgi Wassiljewitsch Goworow; * 10. Januarjul./ 22. Januar 1815greg. in Tschernawsk; † 6. Januarjul./ 18. Januar 1894greg. in Wyscha) war… …
3Philokalia — The Philokalia (Gk. φιλοκαλείν Love of the Beautiful ) is a collection of texts by masters of the Eastern Orthodox, hesychast tradition, writing from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries on the disciplines of Christian prayer and a life… …
4Jesus Prayer — The Jesus Prayer, also called the Prayer of the Heart, is a short, formulaic prayer often uttered repeatedly. It has been widely used, taught and discussed throughout the history of the Eastern Orthodox Church. The exact words of the prayer have… …
5Hesychasm — (Greek Polytonic|ἡσυχασμός hesychasmos , from Polytonic|ἡσυχία hesychia , stillness, rest, quiet, silence ) [Parry (1999), p. 230] is an eremitic tradition of prayer in the Eastern Orthodox Church, and some other Eastern Churches of the Byzantine …
6Predestination — Predestination, in theology is the doctrine that all events have been willed by God. John Calvin interpreted biblical predestination to mean that God willed eternal damnation for some people and salvation for others.[1] Explanations of… …
7Spiritual transformation — is the act of transforming the deepest aspects of the human spirit via a self induced or divine act.ee also*Integral transformative practice *Transpersonal psychology *Sivananda *MeditationThe Way of Spiritual Transformationby Hieromonk… …
8Anathema — (in Greek Ανάθεμα) meaning originally something lifted up as an offering to the gods; later, with evolving meanings, it came to mean: # to be formally set apart, # banished, exiled, excommunicated or # denounced, sometimes… …
9January 9 — Events * 475 Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople. *1349 The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing bubonic plague, were rounded up and incinerated.… …
10List of saints — This article is about Christian saints after 450 AD. For Christian saints before this time, see List of early Christian saints. For a list of venerated persons in Mahayana Buddhism, see List of bodhisattvas. This is an incomplete list of… …
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