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#REDIRECT [[Seraphim Rose]]
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| name = Seraphim Rose:</br>The True Story and Private Letters
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| image = Seraphim Rose (book) cover.jpeg
| caption = 1st edition
| author = [[Cathy Scott]]
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| country = United States
| language = English
| genre = Christian Orthodoxy (Books) </br> Religious Leader Biographies </br> Biographies Memoirs (Books)
| release_date = September 15, 2000
| media_type = Print (paperback)
| english_pub_date = September 2000
| pages = 250 pp (Paperback ed)
| isbn = 9781928653011
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'''''Seraphim Rose: The True Story and Private Letters''''' (2000) is a biographical book by author [[Cathy Scott]] about her uncle [[Seraphim Rose]], formerly known as Eugene Rose, a [[hieromonk]] of the [[Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia]]. The book's foreword was written by Father Alexey Young.<ref name=Lives>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pomona.edu/news/2001/04/13-lives-saint|title=Lives of a Saint|date=April 13, 2020|website=Pomona College in Claremont, California - Pomona College magazine}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Seraphim_Rose/tJbePAAACAAJ?hl=en|title=Seraphim Rose: The True Story and Private Letters|date=September 15, 2000|publisher=Regina Orthodox Press|via=Google Books}}</ref>
==Content==
The author collected 140 of Seraphim Rose's previously unreleased private letters and incorporated them in the biography that traces his intellectual journey, chronicling the deep spiritual search that led him to the Orthodox faith, according to Frank Schaeffer, publisher of Regina Orthodox Press, which released the book. It also contains 30 color and black-and-white photographs.<ref name="auto"/>
==Reception==
Benedict Seraphim wrote that the letters in the book "set out the gradual conversion of Father Seraphim from his former life to his life as Orthodox," and that "it is a book well worth reading, and for those who revere Father Seraphim and wish to know as much about his life as possible, it is a book well worth owning."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://benedictseraphim.wordpress.com/2005/07/09/seraphim-rose-the-true-story-and-private-letters-a-review/|title=“Seraphim Rose: The True Story and Private Letters”: A Review|first=Benedict|last=Seraphim|date=July 9, 2005}}</ref> The book faced criticism from some [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodox]] faithful for its revelation that Rose was [[homosexuality|homosexual]] and that a gay relationship was partly responsible for Rose's conversion to [[Russian Orthodox Church|Russian Orthodoxy]].<ref name=Lives/>
About those calling for the Church’s formal declaration of Rose's sainthood, Giacomo Sanfilippo, editor of ''Orthodoxy in Dialogue'', wrote that Scott ... as Rose's biographer doesn't have any wish to "obstruct her subject’s veneration as a saint." The author simply insists "that the full story be told," Sanfilippo wrote.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://orthodoxyindialogue.com/2020/09/17/when-biography-and-hagiography-collide-giacomo-sanfilippo/|title=WHEN BIOGRAPHY AND HAGIOGRAPHY COLLIDE by Giacomo Sanfilippo|date=September 17, 2020}}</ref>
== References ==
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== External links ==
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* [https://josephsciambra.com/fr-seraphim-rose-my-conversation-with-his-niece-cathy-scott/ Sons of St. Joseph Podcast with Joseph Sciambra, Fr. Seraphim Rose: My Conversation with His Niece – Cathy Scott]
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[[Category:Books about Christianity]]
[[Category:Russian Orthodoxy in the United States]]
[[Category:Books by Cathy Scott]]
[[Category:American biographies]]
[[Category:Biographies about religious figures]]
[[Category:2000 non-fiction books]]
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