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On Faith
Faith as direct experience rather than intellectual assent
Symeon the New Theologian on faith as direct experience rather than intellectual assent. Symeon insists that genuine faith involves a conscious encounter with divine grace — not merely believing correct propositions about God, but actually perceiving the divine light. A clear introduction to Symeon's experiential theology. Read this before the longer works to understand what he means by faith before he starts talking about its consequences.