Exciting grace and its importance in the matter of man’s salvation according to the teachings of St. Theophan the Recluse in the work “The Path to Salvation”
The article is devoted to the study of soteriology. In its framework, on the example of the work of St. Theophanes the Recluse «the Way to salvation», the author considers one of the soteriological aspects, namely, the value of God's grace in the salvation of man. This aspect is revealed more clearly in the process of cooperation between God and man, that is, it is in a synergistic way that the question of the meaning of God's grace acquires a special color. In the topic of the article grace is called «excitatory». This name is not accidental, because the actions of grace are directed at a person who has already experienced the power of God. That is, the Lord always affects a person in a special way, which is conditioned by the state of the person himself.