The Spiritual Autobiography in the Eastern space in the second half of the XIXth and XXth century
The Spiritual Autobiography in the Eastern space in the second half of the XIXth and XXth century

Summary/Abstract: In this study, the author highlights the main aspects of spiritual autobiography from the Orthodox Space in the second half of the XIXth Century and in the XXth one. After a brief incursion in the history of this gender as the theological literature, and a presentation of its evolution in this space, he analyses the most representative work of this genre in the past century, the Spiritual writings of Saint Silouane, monk at the Holy Mount of Athos,presenting the spiritual values of this book, the context of writing and its importance for the Oriental Theology (based on the literature of speciality from Romanian and foreign theological space and on the opinion of the theologians which analysed before the work his writings). At the end of the research, starting from the presentation of the main aspects of author's work, he defines the particularities of the genre in the presented space.

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