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Spiritual Fatherhood

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Spiritual fatherhood is popular, controversial, and misunderstood. For Evagrius Ponticus (AD 343–99) and the early fathers, nothing can be spiritual without the Holy Spirit, and true spiritual fathers can say, with St Paul: "in Christ Jesus I begot you through the gospel" (1 Cor 4.15). This begets freedom, not dependence. In this relationship we see an image of the freedom given to all who receive "the Spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, 'Abba! Father!'" (Rom 8.15).

True spiritua...