Name: The Illumined Heart: Capture the Vibrant Faith of the Ancient Christians - Frederica Mathewes-green
Brand: Frederica Mathewes Green
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Early Christians practiced the disciplines of prayer, spiritual direction, fasting, and repentance and believed they were on the path toward an illumined heart. Drawing on early writings, Mathewes-Green offers insight for how 21st-century Christians can incorporate those spiritual practices. nWhy are modern Christians so indistinguishable from everyone else? nHow come Christians who lived in times of bloody persecution were so heroic, while we who live in safety are not? nHow could the first Christians fast valiantly, but we feel deprived without dessert? nHow did New Testament believers pray without ceasing? nHow could the early Christian martyrs actually forgive their torturers? nWhat did the Christians of the first centuries know that we don't? nThat's what this book is about. nFrom the author: nWhen I look back at the process of writing The Illumined Heart, I'm amazed all over again at how God directed it. I wrote the whole thing in a week, the week before Christmas, in fact, which is so typically congested with last-minute errands, unpredicatable weather, aches and sniffles. For Orthodox Christians, it's also a week that we fast from meat and dairy, adding another ball to the juggling act. Yet somehow I started writing the book on Monday morning and completed it Sunday night, just fourteen minutes after the Christmas Eve service began. (I kept wondering where in the week I'd dawdled and lost that fourteen minutes.) nIt's no wonder that I look at The Illumined Heart as th