Предисловие

“The Gospel Story of God the Son” is one of the most important interpretative works of St. Theophan the Recluse, which occupies a special place in Russian spiritual literature. It gives us an amazing guide to the Holy Gospel - the main Book that leads a person to salvation. The entire earthly life of our Savior is described in detail by the author in the words of the holy Evangelists in chronological order. The reader can easily find a description of the event of the Gospel story that interests him by the titles of the parts and paragraphs, indicating their content. Those wishing to find out the place of any event in the general flow of other tales of the Gospel story will be helped by an alphabetical index and a detailed chronological table. In an extensive address to the readers, the saint explains the principles and rules he adopted to establish the order of the Gospel events, offers a corresponding summary of the Gospel history, indicating its main parts and all divisions, and a detailed table of contents of the contents of the Gospels. The book is addressed to a wide range of readers - both those who perceive only the first words of the Holy Gospel, and those who strive for a deeper knowledge of the Holy Scriptures and its grace-filled power, “even to life and piety.” When working on the text of “The Gospel Story of God the Son,” the Bible was used, published by the Moscow Patriarchate Publishing House in 1990 – Ed.). You might be interested in: