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Orthodox Book Centre, January 2003. Paper Back. New. By simplest definition, a commentary on the twelve feasts of the Orthodox ecclesial year. But of course, we cannot leave it at that because it is Metropolitan Hierotheos' Christological interpretation of these feasts (standing squarely on the shoulders of the Church Fathers) that articulates in ''a beautiful and inductive way'' the nature of their divine economy in the Church. Metropolitan Hierotheos explains that ''Christians experience the events of our Lord's life in accordance with the depth of their spiritual state. Therefore it is not a matter of an outward adaptation of a formal feast, but of spiritual experience, and properly speaking, of a sacramental and ascetic imitation of Christ.'' Even the phrase 'imitation of Christ,' he says, has been distorted to convey only its ethical dimension when, in truth, it contains and embraces ''man's whole journey towards deification, which is…
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by MET. HIEROTHEOS VLACHOS, ESTHER WILLIAMS (TRANS.)
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- Title The feasts of the Lord
- Author MET. HIEROTHEOS VLACHOS, ESTHER WILLIAMS (TRANS.)
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- Publisher Birth of the Theotokos Monastery, Levadia, Greece
- Date 2003
- ISBN 9789607070470
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