Experiența mistică a Cuviosului Părinte Sofronie Saharov
The mystical experience of the Most Holy Father Sofronie Saharov

Summary/Abstract: Nowadays one of the world’s challenges is without a doubt the unprecedented meeting of cultural and religious models. The key term is interculturalism, heavily promoted at international level with the declared intention to reduce conflict and to more easily integrate migrants in different socio-cultural spaces. To assume interculturalism is, for theologians, a priority, all the more so since modern means of information and communication make available to young people various models which are not only very dissimilar but also at different axiological levels in relation to the teaching revealed. This paper aims to compare and contrast the fundamental doctrines and the moral and educational implications of Orthodox spirituality with those of Far Eastern asceticism. The particularities and possibilities which the two spiritual approaches offer will be exemplified by means of the personal experiences of Father Sophrony Sakharov, who has recently been proposed for canonization by the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

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