/lit/ - Literature

>>20406576

There are countless female ascetics, Saints, and eldresses. None of them experience this blasphemous pornographic idea of a "feminine spirituality", since true spirituality is the same for all people, since God is the same for all people. If people have different "styles" of experiences, they're not having experiences of the same God.

There are no shortage of miracle-working female Saints in Orthodoxy - Blessed Xenia of St. Petersburg comes to mind, as well as the various Abbesses recorded in Russia's Catacomb Saints, like Abbess Antonina https://russiascatacombsaints.blogspot.com/2010/12/29-abbess-antonina.html

None of the recordings of Orthodox female Saints have any notice of a separate "feminine spirituality" or the pornographic and sensual post-schism wackiness of Teresa of Avila or Marie Alacoque. Compare their lives to the pre-schism female Saints, like St. Mary of Egypt. It's night and day.

>>20406938

The biggest contributions that Nuns tend to make to the theological tradition, is adding another Saint to heaven, and leaving behind another witness to Christ's promise of deification to his followers. Leaving behind a body of writings is something secondary to the actual theological tradition of deification, and continuing the true worship of God.

Writing rational refutations is a male thing, like an intellectual war front. Women are unsuited to this type of mental combat, like how they are unsuited to physical combat. There are no female warrior Saints, because of this - but there are countless mother Saints, both spiritual mothers as nuns and as actual mothers, as mothers of Saints, like St. Augustine's mother, St. Monica, or the Virgin Mary.

>>20406029

Thomas Merton at some point was a Roman Catholic, but at a later point apostatised. Here's a reading of Eugene Rose's letter (prior to becoming Fr. Seraphim Rose to Thomas Merton. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPlxSlHoDTs