Thirst for Love and Truth

Encounters of Orthodox Theology and Psychological Science

by Fr Vasileios Thermos

Our souls struggle for a genuine life which is a life granted by the Holy Spirit. But various obstacles hinder our spiritual process, some of them internal (psychological deficits and complications) and others external (a society of sin and confusion). In a psychological era the sciences which explore the psychological life of the soul can be valuable, provided that we shall make use of them with respect for the hidden treasure that the Lord trusted to our personalities. The six articles of this book explore several aspects of our psychological journeys in life by crossing the vocabularies of Theology and Psychology. This can be hopefully a way in which secular knowledge may serve the aim of spiritual progress.Fr Vasileios Thermos is an Orthodox theologian and priest from Greece. He is a psychiatrist for children and adolescents in private practice and holds a Ph.D. from the Theological School of Athens University on the psychology of priestly vocation. He has beeen a Visiting Scholar in Harvard Divinity School, Boston College, and Andover Newton. This is the second volume of Fr Thermos to be published in this series: his In Search of the Person: “True” and “False” self according to Donald Winnicott and St. Gregory Palamas, published in 2002, was the first volume in this series.

Cover type: Soft
88 pages
Edition #1 published in 2010 by Alexander Press.
ISBN: 1-896800-33-1