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Abstract: Saint Symeon the New Theologian’s Conflict with Stephan the Ex-Archbishop of Nycomedia. Center figure of Byzantine Theology, the life and work of St. Symeon the New Theologian (949 – 1022) brings vitality into the spiritual experience, the ecclesiastic and sacramental mystery of the divine life, of this life full of grace to which the world is called and has access through Christ and by the Holy Ghost. As a fruit of his own spiritual experience, unique in manifestation and intensity in the spiritual settings of that epoch, but comparable even with the lives of those before and after his time, the holy life, this life of St. Symeon lived in the divine light resulted in him being named the Theologian, acknowledged in the history of the Church as the New Theologian, like St. John the Evangelist and St. Gregory Nazianzus. The theological outlook of St. Symeon the New Theologian, the expression of the most authentic type of emotional experience of the Eastern spirituality, is the fruit of a life flooded with divine grace, love and light which represent the center of his way of thinking achieved through the cleanliness of the soul, tears and the practice of virtues and humility, but also through endless prayer. He brought new life into Byzantine monasticism and developed a spiritual movement of the highest importance for the Church. Nevertheless, his spiritual teachings were not accepted by everybody and unfortunately it caused resistance from the monks as well as from the high officials of the Church. |
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