Not of This World The Life and Teaching of FR. SERAPHIM ROSE.

Not of This World

The Life and Teaching of FR. SERAPHIM ROSE.

Pathfinder to the Heart of Ancient Christianity

LIVING as a monk in the mountains of northern California. Fr. Seraphim Rose broke the shackles of his times and penetrated into the heart of ancient, otherworldly Christian experience, reconnecting fragmented Western man with his lost roots and showing him the way of return to God. Today his name is known and loved by millions throughout the world, especially in Russia and Eastern Europe, where dur- ing the Communist era his writings were secretly distributed in thousands of typewritten copies.

This book traces his passionate search for Truth and his spiritual and philosophical development, setting forth his message and offering a glimpse into the soul of a man not of this world.

"Fr. Seraphim belonged to that breed of ascetics seldom seen today. He strove to assimilate spiritual understanding based on personal experience ... and thus, when the time came to speak and write, he knew exactly what he was talking about."

-Russia's Science and Religion magazine

"Fr. Seraphim was granted the greatest gift that man can be granted on earth-the gift of spiritual discernment." Bishop Amphilocius, Mount Athos, Greece

"Reading Fr. Rose is like drinking pure water after wading in muck!"

Constance Cumbey, author of The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow

"Fr. Seraphim was a burning and illuminating lamp. He left us his light in his writings."

 -Helen Kontzevitch, co-author of The Acquistion of the Holy Spirit in Ancient Russia

"Fr. Seraphim's books demonstrate that seemingly inexplicable phenomena can be explained according to the stable, secure, precise theory of Orthodox Patristic doctrine."

-Mikhail Scherbachev, Moscow Patriarchate Publishing Department

"The life of Fr. Seraphim Rose shows us that the way to recover our souls as Westerners is to return to the roots of the real culture of the West-Patristic Christianity."

-Fr. Andrew Rossi, editor, Epiphany Journal

-A believer in contemporary Russia

"Without Fr. Seraphim we'd all be dead."