The Meaning of Suffering, and Strife & Reconciliation

Publication Data: Wildwood, CA: St. Herman Brotherhood/St. Xenia Skete, 1994
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: 112
Dimensions (l × w × h): 21.0 cm × 13.4 cm × 0.8 cm
Additional Information: black-and-white illustrations
ISBN: 0‒938635‒86‒7

   
Translated by Ralitsa Doynova

Volumes II and III of The Spiritual Writings of Archimandrite Seraphim Aleksiev

“[...G]odly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death (II Cor. 7:10). This Gospel truth has been forgotten; the world rushes to psychologists, psychiatrists, hypnotists, the Eastern practices of yoga, meditation, transcendentalism. etc., looking for answers, but to no avail. Archimandrite Seraphim points us back in the right direction and gives the example of the holy Prophet King David, who praised God in his suffering and ‘found the lost joy of human life in his longing for God.... How much more possible this is after the coming of Jesus Christ, Who came to earth to renew and regenerate fallen human nature, to restore to us grace and the lost paradisiacal bliss.’”
—“Introduction”

CONTENTS

About the Author
Introduction
The Meaning of Suffering
   PART I: Suffering in the Light of Divine Revelation
   PART II: Sufferings and Sin
   PART III: The Blessings of Suffering
Strife & Reconciliation
   I. Strife
   II. Punished Stubbornness
   III. Boastful Malice
   IV. Reconciliation
   V. Knowledge and Practice
   VI. The Man Who Forgives
   VII. Endurance and Salvation
   VIII. Conclusion
Index