Asceticism and Spirituality in Modern Times

From the approaches anti - religious of the nineteenth century and much of the twentieth century, we see the end of the second millennium, a return to the deep religious concerns. Instead, Orthodox Christianity do not has known this transformation and remained faithful Christian spirituality as it has manifested since apostolic times, in the province of Scythia – minor. Meanwhile, Western rationalist vision led to conflicts and disputes in discourse and practice of the Church in matters of spirituality and asceticism. Born in the cradle of the Romanian Orthodox spirituality in the province of Scythia Minor and later perfected in the direct exercise of ascetic practices in the Egyptian desert, St. John Cassian gather in his person the values of Christian spirituality of the early church and gives them with a love and remarkable understanding to Western ascetics. Thus, through the voice and work of St. John Cassian, the Christians of the Orient offers a generous gift for Western Christians who claimed communion in Eastern spirituality during to the early Christian church to the asceticism born and perfected in the Egyptian desert, leading to further development of an exceptional spirituality in the West.