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Kakve Su Ti Misli Takav Ti Je život (2002)

by Thaddeus of Vitovnica(Favorite Author)

4.54 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Ksantikos

review 1: I've really thought long and hard about how to review this. First, it's worth stating that I'm Protestant, so I might not exactly be the intended audience, but it received this book as a gift from a dear relative who recently converted to Orthodoxy, and I want to learn more about it. I give it 3 stars because I think it is a good book with lots of wisdom that any believer could learn from, but I hesitate to give it 5 because so much of what I read required so much mental gymnastics to justify it being Biblically-based. (Note I don't mean "doctrinally sound" because I tried hard to set aside my particular doctrinal inclinations while I read this. I mean I couldn't figure out how Elder Thaddeus arrived at his conclusions from Scripture.). That may be due to my own ignora... morence and my lack of knowledge of the traditions of the Church, but that was one of my hesitations. The other was that many of the teachings seemed self-contradictory. That, again, could be because I didn't give it a subtle enough reading, but I did what I could. So altogether, I would recommend the book, but I would only recommend it to someone who is either a mature believer (Orthodox or not) or who has, as Elder Thaddeus would put it, a "spiritual advisor" who is very wise.
review 2: I recommend this book. The elder's life was compelling to read, and mirrored the difficult times the Serbian people have gone through in recent history. "Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives" is a good summary of his basic teaching message, one which we hear often from New Age or secular psychology sources, but here is in an Orthodox Christian context. Some of his advice and observations were a bit off, in my opinion, but that is a good reminder not to take every spiritual teaching as gospel. less

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