Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future

How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it! Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. By their fruits ye shall know them… Not…

Ours is a spiritually unbalanced age, when even many Orthodox Christians find themselves tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive (Eph. 4: 14).

   

All the gods of the pagans are demons. Psalm 96:5   The following article comes from the experience of a woman who, after attending high school in a Roman Catholic content, practiced Hinduism for twenty years until finally, by God’s grace, she was converted to the Orthodox Faith, finding the end of her search for truth in the Russian Church Outside of Russia.

The author of this testimony, a new martyr of the Communist Yoke, enjoyed a brilliant worldly career as a naval commander, being also deeply involved in occultism as editor of the occult journal Rebus.

In addition to the theological “dialogue” with non-Christian religions and the thinly-disguised Eastern religious experiences described in previous chapters, there have been in recent years quite open attempts to develop a syncretism of Christianity with several Eastern religions, particularly in the realm of “spiritual practices.”

1. “Christian” and Non-Christian Ecumenism   As an answer to the question of the possibility of a “dialogue” of Orthodox Christianity with the various non-Christian religions, the reader has been presented the testimony of three Orthodox Christians who confirm, on the basis of Orthodox doctrine and their own experience, what the Orthodox Church has always taught: that Orthodox Christians...

The concept of prelest, a key one in Orthodox ascetical teaching, is completely absent in the Protestant-Catholic world which produced the “charismatic” movement; and this fact explains why such an obvious deception can gain such a hold over nominally “Christian” circles...

It is deeply indicative of the spiritual state of contemporary mankind that these and other experiences of “meditation” are taking root among “Christians.”

In the brief year since this book was printed it has become something of a “best-seller” among Orthodox books; if one includes the original articles in The Orthodox Word from which it was compiled, there will now be close to 5,000 copies in circulation—something rather rare for a serious and uncompromising Orthodox book in the English language.

                       

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Труд «Православие и религия будущего» иеромонаха Серафима (Роуза).

Православие и религия будущего — иеромонах Серафим (Роуз) - читает Дмитрий Поляков.