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"People’s growing love of Psychology Is A Terrible Thing. Psychology helps those in the West, but it is dreadful when the Orthodox learn psychology and substitute it for the neptic tradition of the Church."
"We must undermine Orthodox Christians’ love of psychology, Because Psychological Methodology Is Outside The Orthodox Tradition and at the same time, it is characterized by the Western mentality."
- Saint Sophrony
"I Know a Man in Christ: Elder Sophrony the Hesychast and Theologian, pg, 269"
https://www.amazon.com/Know-Man-Christ-Hesychast-Theologian/dp/9607070895
It really just confirms how I already felt about the use of psychology by Christians.
Also :
“The psychological trials of dwellers in the last times will be equal to the physical trials of the martyrs. In order to face these trials, we must be living in a different world.”
- Fr. Seraphim Rose.
And
• The Jesus Prayer and the Psychological Persecution which awaits us
(By Elder Justin Parvu of blessed memory).
.
"We must undermine Orthodox Christians’ love of psychology, Because Psychological Methodology Is Outside The Orthodox Tradition and at the same time, it is characterized by the Western mentality."
- Saint Sophrony
"I Know a Man in Christ: Elder Sophrony the Hesychast and Theologian, pg, 269"
https://www.amazon.com/Know-Man-Christ-Hesychast-Theologian/dp/9607070895
It really just confirms how I already felt about the use of psychology by Christians.
Also :
“The psychological trials of dwellers in the last times will be equal to the physical trials of the martyrs. In order to face these trials, we must be living in a different world.”
- Fr. Seraphim Rose.
And
• The Jesus Prayer and the Psychological Persecution which awaits us
(By Elder Justin Parvu of blessed memory).
.
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