Why are modern Christians so indistinguishable from everyone
else?
How come Christians who lived in times of bloody persecution were
so heroic, while we who live in safety are not?
How could the first Christians fast valiantly, but we feel deprived
without dessert?
How did New Testament believers pray without ceasing?
How could the early Christian martyrs actually forgive their
torturers?
What did the Christians of the first centuries know that we
don't?
That's what this book is about.
From the author:
When I look back at the process of writing "The Illumined Heart,"
I'm amazed all over again at how God directed it. I wrote the whole
thing in a week, the week before Christmas, in fact, which is so
typically congested with last-minute errands, unpredicatable
weather, aches and sniffles. For Orthodox Christians, it's also a
week that we fast from meat and dairy, adding another ball to the
juggling act. Yet somehow I started writing the book on Monday
morning and completed it Sunday night, just fourteen minutes after
the Christmas Eve service began. (I kept wondering where in the
week I'd dawdled and lost that fourteen minutes.)
It's no wonder that I look at "The Illumined Heart" as the one out
of all of my books that felt the most God-directed. Mostly, he told
me when to shut up. For a cup-runneth-over writer like me, starting
a book is like moving into mid-pregnancy and putting on those
stretch-front trousers for the first time; they're like a license
to eat. And knowing that I have room to write on and on, whatever
comes to mind, makes for abundant, wandering prose. Yet "The
Illumined Heart" is quiet, proportional, just-enough; it's like a
jewel. It's no wonder that this is a personal favorite among my own
books, and the one I must urge people to read. I'm pleased by the
amount of good work it's done so far, and hope that it will
continue to do much more.
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