{"product_id":"the-spiritual-life-and-how-maik-dueck-9798186068327","title":"The Spiritual Life and How to Be Attuned to It: Letters on the Christian Life","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"What is the spiritual life, and how do I begin?\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the 1870s a young woman of Moscow society put that question to one of Russia's greatest spiritual directors, and received eighty remarkable letters in reply.\u003cbr\u003eSt. Theophan the Recluse (1815-1894), bishop, hermit, and translator of the Philokalia, answers her with warmth, humor, and startling directness: what body, soul, and spirit are; why worldly amusement leaves the heart empty; how grace works and how to give it room; how to pray without distraction, practice the Jesus Prayer and the remembrance of God, fight passionate thoughts, and order an ordinary day in the world around the one thing needful. A beloved classic of Eastern Orthodox spirituality and a masterpiece of practical spiritual direction, this course in the interior life was written not for monks but for a laywoman with a household, a social calendar, and doubts of her own - which is why it still reads as if addressed to you. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis edition is a complete new translation of all eighty letters, made directly from the Russian text of 1878, with an introduction and a translator's preface on the key terms of Theophan's teaching.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maik Dueck,Theophan The Recluse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798186068327\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Maik Dueck","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997895176447,"sku":"9798186068327","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-spiritual-life-and-how-maik-dueck-9798186068327","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}