{"id":2036,"date":"2016-05-14T13:55:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T17:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2016-05-12T08:58:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T12:58:57","slug":"wisdom-from-modern-orthodox-elders-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2036","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8f33u\" data-offset-key=\"7dl7h-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"7dl7h-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"7dl7h-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">&#8220;As to the fatalism of those who believe that man must be a slave to the spirit of the age, it is disproved by the experience of every Christian worthy of the name, for the Christian life is nothing if it is not a struggle against the spirit of every age for the sake of eternity.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8f33u\" data-offset-key=\"85s7u-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"85s7u-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"85s7u-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8f33u\" data-offset-key=\"dqlc0-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"dqlc0-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"dqlc0-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">Man&#8217;s freedom has been given him to choose between the true God and himself, between the true path to deification whereon the self is humbled and crucified in this life to be resurrected and exalted in God and eternity, and the false path of self-deification which promises exaltation in this life but ends in the Abyss. These are the only two choices, ultimately, open to the freedom of man; and upon them have been founded the two Kingdoms, the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Man, which may be discriminated only by the eye of faith in this life, but which shall be separated in the future life as Heaven and Hell. It is clear to which of them modern civilization belongs. The old commandment of Thou shalt, says [Nietzsches] Zarathustra, has become outmoded; the new commandment is I will.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8f33u\" data-offset-key=\"e452j-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"e452j-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"e452j-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">(Fr. Seraphim Rose in &#8216;The Orthodox Word&#8217;)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"e452j-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1494\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SeraphimRose-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"SeraphimRose\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SeraphimRose-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SeraphimRose.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8f33u\" data-offset-key=\"5vhvv-0-0\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As to the fatalism of those who believe that man must be a slave to the spirit of the age, it is disproved by the experience of every Christian worthy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2037,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions\/2037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}