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Episode 25: “What Is Meant By The Spiritual Life?”, Part 6 of Augustine of Hippo: An Orthodox Perspective, Dr. C. Veniamin
In Part 6 of “Augustine of Hippo: An Orthodox Perspective”, Episode 25 of our series in “Mystical Theology”, we attempt to outline some of the distinguishing characteristics of the Orthodox spiritual life. Other themes broached in this episode are listed in the Timestamps below.
Q&As available in The Professor’s Blog
Recommended background reading: Christopher Veniamin, ed., Saint Gregory Palamas: The Homilies (Dalton PA: 2022); The Orthodox Understanding of Salvation: "Theosis" in Scripture and Tradition (2016); The Transfiguration of Christ in Greek Patristic Literature (2022); and Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos, Empirical Dogmatics of the Orthodox Catholic Church: According to the Spoken Teaching of Father John Romanides, Vol. 1 (2012), Vol. 2 (repr. ed. 2020).
Further bibliography may be found in our "Scholar's Corner" webpage.

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1. “What Is Meant By The Spiritual Life?”, Part 6 of Augustine of Hippo: An Orthodox… Dr. C. Veniamin (00:00:00)

2. “Sure Knowledge” - “Not yet but later” (00:00:01)

3. Purpose of existence: to become true images of Christ (00:01:55)

4. Commandments of Christ - a divine way of life (00:02:35)

5. Discovering the will of God (00:03:17)

6. Learning to call upon the Name of the Lord, the Gospel and worship (00:04:25)

7. The Divine Liturgy (00:04:45)

8. Enos the son of Seth (Gen. 4.26) (00:05:07)

9. Spiritual life based on repentance and joy (00:05:58)

10. A person who is repenting has no desire to judge anyone (00:08:23)

11. Learning Christlike humility (00:08:36)

12. Criteria of repentance, humility and love for enemies (00:08:47)

13. God’s purpose in His creation of man seen in the Transfiguration (00:09:48)

14. Vision of Christ in glory is moment of salvation (deification) (00:11:34)

15. Saints pray for the whole world (00:12:03)

16. Saints having received the mind of Christ live as Christ lives (00:14:30)

17. Perfection in Christ vs perfectionism (00:15:07)

18. What do we mean by “Saint”? (00:16:33)

19. Prayer as a spiritual state: example of St. Paisios (00:17:53)

20. Importance of the Saints: encouragement to us all (00:19:15)

21. How to become like a St. Silouan? (00:20:04)

22. Humility and the way of the Cross (00:20:40)

23. The Cross and the Resurrection (00:21:02)

24. Pain and suffering - Christian life is martyric - Christ’s commandments a martyrdom (00:21:27)

25. Healing transformation of the heart (00:22:53)

26. Focus on externals due to lack of spiritual experience (00:23:30)

27. “Strictness” of the Canons of the Church vs “Economia” (00:24:04)

28. Appeal (00:25:16)