We live in a technical society and we are used to thinking that everything that happens has an external cause, every movement an impetus from another force. The positivist psychologists have taught us that a child's soul is a tabula rasa, in which we will find only what other people will write there[...]

Professor-emeritus of the Pontifical Oriental Institute at Rome, Tomas Spidla-k dedicated his scholarly life to studying and teaching the theology and spirituality of the Christian East in the hope of reconciling Eastern and Western Christian traditions. In this encyclopaedic overview of Eastern spi[...]