The author believes heart to be the center of the all somatic and spiritual life of man. It thinks, senses and it is the organ of conscience and love and the main point of human organism. The entire religious experience and emotions are into heart. According to Palamas the heart is origin of mind. Real religious experience can be achieved only in this way.
Heart is a source of both the good and the evil.
Thus the religious experience acquired in the process of spiritual activities of man that done in all depths of heart and aimed at achieving theosis. And it is this experience can be very helpful for developing most topical problems of religious and philosophical anthropology which is to take into consideration the principal latest discoveries of the profound psychology and modern psychology of religion. Back This document is from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library at Calvin College. Last updated on March 24, 2001.