(Excerpt) THE ORTHODOX CHURCH IN THE WORLD (Part 2 - Talks & Discussions in Russia, Romania & Georgia) - Metr. Hierotheos

Theology as Charisma and Experience, continued

a) St John the Theologian and Evangelist

b) St Gregory the Theologian

c) St Symeon the New Theologian

d) St Gregory Palamas

Discussion after the Talk

Q1 Progress in Prayer

Q2 The Worldwide Influence of Russian Theologians

Q3 Curing Human Beings

Q4 Noetic Prayer and Evagrius of Pontus

Q5 The Method of Hypnotism and Orthodox

Psychotherapy

Q6 Obedience to the Spiritual Father

Q7 Monasticism and Marriage in Relation to Deification

Q8 Holy Communion and Confession

Q9 Holy Communion and Holy Relics

Q10 The Possibility of Baptism in the Mother’s Womb

Q11 Birth Control

Q12 The Relationship between the Divine Liturgy and the

Jesus Prayer

Q13 Theology and Philosophy

Q14 Discerning between Thoughts

Q15 Sorrow and Depression

Part 3 - Romania

1. The Hesychastic Life according to St Basil the Great

1. Correspondence with St Gregory the Theologian

2. Sacred Hesychia and God’s Temple

a) Wandering

b) Leaving the World

c) Life in the Wilderness

d) Prayer and Reading

e) Hesychia

f ) Nous and Theoria

g) Temple of the All-Holy Spirit

h) Transformation of the Whole of Life

3. Hesychast and Celebrant

Epilogue

Discussion after the Talk

Q1 The Link between Hesychastic Experience and the

Divine Eucharist

Q2 Theoria of the Divine Light

Statement on the Television Station of the Patriarchate of

Romania

The International Conference on St Basil the Great

2. Bringing Up Children Today

1. Children are God’s Gift

2. Bringing up Children in the Church

3. Children as Equal Members of the Church

4. Difficulties connected with the Development and

Upbringing of Children Today

Discussion after the Talk

Q1 The Hour of Death

Q2 Sickness of the Nous

Q3 Noetic Prayer

Q4 Holy Communion and Confession

Q5 Homeopathy

Q6 Children in the Church

Q7 Choosing Someone to Care for Children

Q8 Dialogues between the Orthodox and non-Orthodox

Q9 Children Facing Death

Q10 Children and Church Attendance

Q11 Religious Education in School

Q12 Demonic Attacks on Children

Q13 Psychological Disturbance

Q14 Unloved Children

3. Interview - The Theology of St Gregory Palamas and the

Scholasticism of Barlaam

Q1 The Historical Context of the Life of St Gregory

Palamas

Q2 Influence of the Holy Mountain on his Life

Q3 Effect of his Conflict with Barlaam

Q4 Popular Interest in Theological Issues

Q5 Summary of St Gregory Palamas’s Teaching

Q6 Knowledge of God

Q7 Patristic Teaching as the Basis of St Gregory Palamas’s

Teaching

Q8 Consequences of the Church’s Victory through St

Gregory Palamas

Q9 The Message of St Gregory Palamas for our Era

4. Interview - Therapy and Truth

Part 4 - Georgia

1. About Orthodox Psychotherapy

1. Why the Book was written

2. The Book’s Title and Subtitle

3. Discussions about the Subject Matter of the Book

4. Orthodox Psychotherapy from the Psychological Point of View

5. Basic Elements of Orthodox Therapeutic Treatment

Discussion after the Talk

Part 5 - St Paissy Velichkovsky

St Paissy Velichkovsky – A Great Hesychast Father

1. His Path to Monasticism

2. Searching for and Translating the Writings of Hesychast

Fathers

3. Spiritual Guide to Hundreds and Thousands of Monks

4. Experiencing Hesychastic Monasticism

5. His Saintly Decease

6. The ‘Philokalic’ Movement in the Orthodox World

Conclusion