Symeon is recognized as the first Eastern Christian mystic to freely share his own mystical experiences. His most well known disciple was Nicetas Stethatos who wrote the Life of Symeon. He attracted many monks and clergy with his reputation for sanctity, though his teachings brought him into conflict with church authorities, who would eventually send him into exile. By the time he was thirty, Symeon the New Theologian became the abbot of the Monastery of Saint Mamas, a position he held for twenty-five years. At age fourteen he met Symeon the Studite, a renowned monk of the Monastery of Stoudios in Constantinople, who convinced him to give his own life to prayer and asceticism under the elder Symeon's guidance. Symeon was born into the Byzantine nobility and given a traditional education. One of his principal teachings was that humans could and should experience theoria (literally "contemplation," or direct experience of God).
" Theologian" was not applied to Symeon in the modern academic sense of theological study the title was designed only to recognize someone who spoke from personal experience of the vision of God.
Symeon the New Theologian ( Greek: Συμεὼν ὁ Νέος Θεολόγος 949–1022) was an Eastern Orthodox Christian monk and poet who was the last of three saints canonized by the Eastern Orthodox Church and given the title of "Theologian" (along with John the Apostle and Gregory of Nazianzus).
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