Episode 10: “Repentance and The Prison”, in John of the Ladder, Dr. C. Veniamin

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Episode 10: “Repentance and The Prison”, in John of the Ladder, Dr. C. Veniamin

Unit 15: “John of the Ladder: Principles of the Christian Life”, by Prof. Christopher Veniamin

Series: “Mystical Theology"

“Repentance and The Prison”, Episode 10 in our series, "John of the Ladder”, is based on the reading of the first half of Step 5: “On Repentance… and about the Prison”, is one of the most challenging chapters in Patristic theology and the spiritual life. Presented by Dr. Christopher Veniamin, themes from 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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