The Stages of Spiritual Life according to Joseph Hazzaya
The Stages of Spiritual Life according to Joseph Hazzaya

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the author seeks to identify the fundamental elements of the spiritual life structure according to the writings of Joseph Hazzaya. Fundamentally, this structure corresponds to the three stages of the spiritual life: bodily, of the soul and spiritual. Each of these stages is analyzed by the author in the light of Hazzaya’s works. The bodily stage begins in the coenobium and ends with the purity. The purity is fulfilled in the state of limpidity, both of them belonging to the stage of the soul. This is the usual spiritual disposition of the progressed monks and, from here, they are lifted by the grace in the spiritual stage. All these changings are described with a multitude of details which confer to Joseph’s theology a great interest and precision.

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