A LIFE DEDICATED TO GOD – SAINT SIMEON THE NEW THEOLOGIAN
A LIFE DEDICATED TO GOD – SAINT SIMEON THE NEW THEOLOGIAN

Summary/Abstract: In Eastern Orthodox theology, three prominent personalities in the life of the Church are called "theologians": St. John the Evangelist Theologian, his entire gospel being an exceptional dogmatic work, St. Gregory the Theologian, this in the "golden age" of Christianity, drafted during his life a dogmatic work of inestimable depth and value, and the third being St. Simeon the New Theologian who really brings a revival of religious life in the Byzantine Empire and beyond, while St. Simeon was a forerunner of hesychasm. After ten centuries of Christianity in which the Holy Fathers lived and wrote numerous works and treatises on theology for the unaltered and preservation of the revealed truth, after the age of the Ecumenical Synods in which dogmas and canons were fixed, here appears in the history of St. Simeon Church, receiving the nickname of the "New Theologian", this rightly, because his life and writings are a source of light and grace, a unique way of living spiritually and experiencing divine grace. Simeonian personality and writings illustrate what might be referred to as the radiant-explosive force of Tradition, in its charismatic sense, "vertical" of predation-occurrence of the divine presence as life of the Holy Spirit in the Church, and not of simple organized transmission social of some ecclesiastical religious texts or practices.

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