Spirituality Studies 87 Georges Antaby Christians of East and West: Patristic Tradition, Spiritual Experience, and Ecclesial Dialogue Received February 27, 2026 Revised March 17, 2025 Accepted March 18, 2026 Keywords Spiritual praxis, doctrine, communion, spiritual theology, ascetical renewal This article examines the twentieth-century patristic renewal through a comparative study of Placide Deseille, Jean Daniélou, and Olivier Clément. While often presented as a unified movement of ressourcement, the study argues that it unfolds through distinct interpretive trajectories with differing implications for spiritual practice. It identifies three methodological paradigms corresponding to the patristic tradition as spiritual transformation, doctrinal continuity, and symbolic mediation. The article proposes an integrative framework that situates patristic theology within lived Christian practice, demonstrating how the patristic heritage functions simultaneously as spiritual praxis, doctrinal memory, and symbolic imagination, thereby contributing to a renewed theology of ecclesial communion. Father Georges Antaby, Ph.D., EMBA serves as an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Notre Dame University - Louaize (NDU) in Lebanon. He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Ottawa, Canada in 2008, bringing deep expertise in philosophical and theological studies to his academic. He also holds an EMBA from the Telfer School of Business at the University of Ottawa (2018). His email contact is antaby2000@gmail.com. orcid.org Georges Antaby ←← Andrey Rublev, The Trinity, tempera, 1411 or 1425–27. Old Katholikon of the Trinity Lavra, Russian Federation.
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