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"If only I could depict a positive holy figure ... Tikhon, whom long ago I received with great delight into my heart." Thus wrote Dostoevsky to his friend the poet Maikov. Like so many others, Dostoevsky felt the power of Tikhon's sanctity. Yet it is difficult to analyze and to categorize this sanctity, so elusive remains the personality of that eighteenth-century bishop and ascetic. Again in the words of Dostoevsky, "The most important thing about Tikhon is Tikhon." This definitive biography explores St. Tikhon's life and writings to reveal the man himself: sensitive, retiring, fond of children, familiar with the writings of the Western pietists, but above all rooted in the Bible, the Fathe...
The present book is translated from the original Russian of Saint Tikhon's magnum opus On True Christianity.
The present book is translated from the original Russian of Saint Tikhon's magnum opus On True Christianity.
This title is translated from the original Russian of a lengthy chapter from "On True Christianity," a treatise by St. Tikhon of Zadonsk.
Repentance consists not only in lagging behind external great sins, but in changing the mind and heart and in updating the inner state. That is, you need to turn away from all the hustle and bustle of this world, since it prevents anyone who wants to be saved to consider various spiritual weaknesses, that is, pride, anger, envy, uncleanness, love of money and so on, and to regret and lament that such evil entered through snake venom our soul, which was created pure and immaculate. And with such pity and regret, praying to Christ so that by His power he will correct and heal us. And when the heart or the internal state changes and is corrected, then the external life and external affairs will...
This book was published in some forty-nine editions prior to the Russian revolution. It is now in its third printing in English. In it, St. Tikhon, who lived from 1724 to 1783 , gives his counsel on living the Christian life. It touches many areas including "Love of God," "The Way of Duty" and "Towards Eternity."The work is further enhanced by two lives of the Saint, a glossary of terms, a bibliography and a Scriptural and a Subject index.
The present book is translated from the original Russian of Saint Tikhon's magnum opus On True Christianity.
"If only I could depict a positive holy figure ... Tikhon, whom long ago I received with great delight into my heart." Thus wrote Dostoevsky to his friend the poet Maikov. Like so many others, Dostoevsky felt the power of Tikhon's sanctity. Yet it is difficult to analyze and to categorize this sanctity, so elusive remains the personality of that eighteenth-century bishop and ascetic. Again in the words of Dostoevsky, "The most important thing about Tikhon is Tikhon." This definitive biography explores St. Tikhon's life and writings to reveal the man himself: sensitive, retiring, fond of children, familiar with the writings of the Western pietists, but above all rooted in the Bible, the Fathe...
The present book is translated from the original Russian of Saint Tikhon's magnum opus On True Christianity.