The path to salvation

The doctrine of salvation is the main theme of the spiritual instructions of St. Theophan the Recluse. The book "The Way to Salvation" was the crown of his work - the test of Christian moralizing. " In it, with the greatest accuracy and conciseness, the image of a Christian life, directing a person along the path to eternal life, is captured.
"ladder" of the New Age can be called this work of St. Theophanum, to which he comprehensively covered the path of committing virtues, leading to the achievement of the great ideal, and in the spiritual exploits of the 28-year shutter testified to his life.
"This leadership must take a person outside of God, turn to Him and then bring him to his person, should trace the life of Christian in its phenomena, in fact, from beginning to end, that is, how it is barked, develops, matches and comes In fullness, or - something the same - to write the story of the active life of every Christian, with an indication of how in which case he should act in order to resist his rank, ”Saint Theophanes said about his creation