Seraphim Rose Quotes

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Turning to the quiet authority of Fr. Seraphim Rose, these two passages capture his uneasy stance on charismatic trends and his stark view of conversion as a painful opening to another world. Readers drawn to Orthodox theology, charismatic spirituality, or mystical Christianity may examine collections for context.

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“When conversion takes place, the process of revelation occurs in a very simple way — a person is in need, he suffers, and then somehow the other world opens up. The more you are in suffering and difficulties and are…

Seraphim Rose

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“In the 1970s, the Russian Orthodox hieromonk Fr. Seraphim Rose famously said that he believed that there was a spirit in the Charismatic movement (which was then having a small impact in a handful of places in Orthodoxy), but that…

Andrew Stephen Damick

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