Saint Silouan, monk of Athos and the quest for the Spirit
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This article by Father Michel Evdokimov focuses on the spiritual figure of Saint Silouan of Athos (1866-1938), a canonized Russian monk, whose life and writings constitute the main source of the study. Drawing from an excerpt of the starets's texts entitled "Longing for God," the author offers a thematic and meditative reading of his spirituality, structured around the quest for the Holy Spirit. The central idea is that Silouan's spiritual experience rests on an inseparable triad: the reception of the Spirit, Christic humility, and love of enemies as an expression of universal brotherhood in Adam. The theological contribution of the article lies in the light it sheds on the Orthodox doctrine of the ontological transformation of man through divine energies, illustrated not by abstract dogmatic reflection, but by a lived and transmitted mystical experience.
This article has not been translated yet — it is available in its French version here.
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