Motifs of “The Ladder” by St. John Climacus in the spiritual letters of St. Ambrose of Optina to the laity
The article undertakes a motif-based analysis of the semantic connections between “The Ladder” by St. John Climacus (St. John of Sinai) and the spiritual letters addressed to the laity by St. Ambrose of Optina. St. Ambrose took part in the preparation for the publication of the translation of “The Ladder” into Russian and Church Slavonic, carried out at Optina Pustyn in 1862. Quotations from “The ...
