Life in Christ

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Life in Christ is a significant work by Nicholas Cabasilas, a 14th-century Greek Orthodox theologian. This book is a key text in Byzantine theology and offers a program for Christian spirituality that integrates divine and human actions within individual and communal liturgical prayer. Cabasilas, who also wrote on Hesychast mysticism and Christian worship, was a proponent of conservative policies and supported the theologian Gregory Palamas. His Commentary on the Divine Liturgy is considered a primary explanation of Christian sacramental worship. Cabasilas also demonstrated social consciousness regarding economic and institutional inequities.1

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Nicholas Cabasilas
Cabasilas’ chief spiritual–ascetical writing, Life in Christ, proposed a program of Christian spirituality integrating divine and human activity in both individual and common liturgical prayer. By essays and political involvement he manifested a social consciousness relative to economic and institutional (including the church) inequities. The high intellectual level of…
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Cabasilas’ chief spiritual–ascetical writing, Life in Christ, proposed a program of Christian spirituality integrating divine and human activity in both individual and common liturgical prayer. By essays and political involvement he manifested a social consciousness relative to economic and institutional (including the church) inequities. The high intellectual level of…
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