The Illness and Cure of the Soul in the Orthodox Tradition

Publication Data: Levadia, Greece: Birth of the Theotokos Monastery, 2004
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: 183
Dimensions (l × w × h): 19.5 cm × 12.2 cm × 1.1 cm
ISBN: 960‒7070‒18‒6

   
Metropolitan of Nafpaktos Hierotheos
translated by Effie Mavromichali

“The author’s main conviction which permeates this book is that Orthodox does not provide a ‘system’ of moral conduct but a therapeutic treatment which cures the innermost aspect of man's personality. Archimandrite Hierotheos Vlachos maintains that he does not innovate by stating this, but that he simply highlights a central teaching of the Fathers of the Church: man's soul suffers malady which distorts his relationship with God, his fellow-men and even nature. The Orthodox church is a Hospital which receives all people and cures their spiritual illness.”
—“Foreword”

CONTENTS

Foreword
Introduction
First meeting - First acquaintance
1. Orthodoxy as a therapeutic method
2. The illness of the soul
3. The cure of the soul
4. Knowledge of god
5. Orthodox monasticism
6. The orthodox tradition