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From addiction to virtue through being and living in Christ: A Philocalic view
Abstract
In the modern society, despite all technological progress, addictive behaviour has become a real concern for scientists, practitioners and theologians. The tendency of pains reduction and awareness, the search for enhanced sense of control and self-esteem satisfaction, the wish for escaping the social and psychological problems of the modern world are the most common causes of addiction. The modern science has no yet solutions for it. What in the last decade of the 20th century was seen as addictive behaviour, in our days is considered as normal conduct. The only way out from this labyrinth is living a true Christian life by keeping the commandments and leading an ascetic life, by which man triggers the grace received at the Holy Baptism, strengthens his own nature, guards the freedom gained by him in the Baptismal waters and escapes from all addictions acquired in a sinful kind of living.
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