This work is a revised and expanded version of a book that has appeared in several languages. It focuses on themes central to Eastern Christian worship and spiritual life. The first three chapters provide insights on death, bereavement and resurrection in Christ; and repentance. Chapters four and five invite the reader into the world of desert ascetics and hesychast monks. Combining schoarly rigor with practical counsels on prayer, Bishop Ware makes the wealth of this traditonal accessible to today's Christians. The next three chapters concern personal vocation, martyrdom, spiritual fatherhood and the strange path of the fool for Christ's sake. There follows brief essays on the theology of time and the spiritual purposes of higher education. The final chapters is a challenging discussion of Origen and SS Gregory of Nyssa, Isaac the Syrian and Silouan the Athonite, and in coversation with them asks, dare we hope for the salvation of all.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." (Hoes 4:6) The lack of knowledge has been the limiting factor in the lives of saints for thousands of years. The knowledge of the power and might that God invested in the saints to overcome the world has perished from the earth on a grand scale, ever since the days that Christ and Acts of the Apostles. However, God is still waiting for those who are willing to demonstrate His glory mightily against the kingdom of darkness. This divine demonstration requires, from every believer, an extreme passion for the truth and the willingness to prove that all things are possible. Unfamiliar Brilliance of the Inner Kingdom will uncover the mystery and power of God's authority and dominion within the believer. Believers will not only believe all things are possible, they will be willing to demonstrate this belief with every degree of their souls. No stranger to the gospel of Christ, Pastor Steve Glenn, an ordained Pastor, has spent 16 years plus as the pastor of Infinite Visionary Training Center, emphasizing the significance of divine progress for all believers. Prior to starting the ministry, Pastor Glenn spent years researching the deeper knowledge of God, prayfully examining and evaluating many forms of religions and doctrines under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and the word of God. An unyielding believer in the unimaginable power of God operating within the believer, Pastor Glenn provides the full gospel in order to empower and transform the mind, heart and soul of the believer for the work of God's kingdom.

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“Jim Marion’s book returns us to the central challenge Christianity ought to be handing us. Indeed, how do we put on the mind of Christ? How do we see through his eyes? How do we feel through his heart? How do we learn to respond to the world with that same wholeness and healing love? That’s what Christian orthodoxy really is all about. It’s not about right belief; it’s about right practice.” —Cynthia Bourgeault, author of The Wisdom Jesus What does it mean to follow the path of Christ today? Putting on the Mind of Christ is the first book to offer an integral understanding of the Christian spiritual path--one that examines the basic stages of spiritual development described by the great saints and sages, along with the psychological stages of development used by modern psychology. American mystic Jim Marion draws upon his own rich spiritual experience and deep understanding of scriptural models, to show readers how to emulate the developmental stages of the Christ: how to put on the mind of Christ to achieve spiritual illumination and communion with the Christ. He examines the seven levels of consciousness of the human personality mapped by the work of Jean Piaget, Carol Milligan, and Lawrence Kohlberg, and leads readers to the consciousness that Jesus called the Kingdom of Heaven--the highest level of spiritual development. Marion shows how inner spiritual growth has always been the true essence of Christian practice and shares his own spiritual experiences within a "Christ-focused" framework. Pioneering, transcendent, and grounded, Putting on the Mind of Christ will permanently alter the landscape of 21st-century Christianity.