Download Ladder of Divine Ascent (Trial Version) APK latest version Free for Android
| Version | 1.01 |
| Update | 5 years ago |
| Size | 2.75 MB (2,883,228 bytes) |
| Developer | Patristic Publishing |
| Category | Apps, Books & Reference |
| Package Name | patristicpublishing.ladder |
| OS | 4.0.3 and up |
Ladder of Divine Ascent (Trial Version) APPLICATION description
The Ladder or "The Ladder of Divine Ascent" is an ascetic book written for a monastic community by John Climacus around the year 600 AD. It was composed for John, the Abbot of Raithu, which is a
monastery situated on the shores of the Red Sea.
The work became very popular in the Eastern Orthodox church and remains widely read today, usually during the period of Lent. The work studies the means of ascending to the peak of religious perfection by a sequence of thirty steps, which bring to mind the thirty years of the life of Christ, who is the pinnacle of religious perfection.
This app presents the steps as a series of windows. The font size of the text can be changed through the Android menu Settings->Display->Font size and there is a text to speech option.
The work became very popular in the Eastern Orthodox church and remains widely read today, usually during the period of Lent. The work studies the means of ascending to the peak of religious perfection by a sequence of thirty steps, which bring to mind the thirty years of the life of Christ, who is the pinnacle of religious perfection.
This app presents the steps as a series of windows. The font size of the text can be changed through the Android menu Settings->Display->Font size and there is a text to speech option.
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