PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

There is a kind of theology that can be learned in books. It speaks well. It quotes correctly. It arranges ideas about God with precision. But it has never stood before Him. The fathers knew nothing of such theology. For them theology was an event. It was the moment when a man encounters Christ and is undone by the encounter. It is the knowledge that comes not through speculation but through fire. A man sees the way of God because God Himself has entered the poverty of human