ОПЫТ «ОЧИЩЕНИЯ СЕРДЦА» В СВЯТООТЕЧЕСКОМ ПОНИМАНИИ: О ПОВЕСТИ Е.ДОМБРОВСКОЙ «ВЕСНА ДУШИ. СТРАНИЦЫ ЖИЗНИ РАБЫ БОЖИЕЙ АННЫ»
AN EXPERIENCE OF “HEART PURIFICATION” IN PATRISTIC UNDERSTANDING: E. DOMBROVSKAYA′S STORY “THE SPRING OF SOUL. LIFE SCENES OF ANN, THE SERVANT OF GOD”

Summary/Abstract: One of the modern spiritual fiction works is analyzed in this article. The following article shows how the author follows the criteria dividing the emotional and spiritual parts of a Christian’ life, basing on the Orthodox traditions. The Holy Father’s doctrine is shown in relation with multistep “heart purification” experience. The author refers to Tolstoy’s soul dialectics which is connected to ascetic practice of self-knowledge. The text brings us back to the subject of man fighting his sins and passions. This tradition was exchanged by the hagiographic canon that shows only the external feat of the saint. The deep understanding of the patristical principle of perceiving everything as a God’s sign, becomes the conceptual point organizing the process of knowledge and self-knowledge. The process of creation and the nature of talent are comprehended in a completely new way. Autobiography, documentary and the reference to the gospel teaching, masterly combined with the figured word and writer’s knowledge about the imaginative fiction.

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