Orthodox Churches category: 320 books
Colonizing Christianity
Greek and Latin Religious Identity in the Era of the Fourth Crusade
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Colonizing Christianity employs postcolonial critique to analyze the transformations of Greek and Latin religious identity in the wake of the Fourth Crusade. Through close readings of texts from the period of Latin occupation, this book argues that the experience of colonization splintered the Greek...
by Linette Martin
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Icons are a doorway to prayer that will deepen your relationship with God. Icons point us beyond themselves. They are different from paintings. An icon speaks to both the mind and the soul. We respond in belief, or praise, or wonder, or encouragement, or simply—prayer. This series of “little books”...
The Open Door
Entering the Sanctuary of Icons and Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Discover how icons can become part of your own life of prayer. Encounter twelve of the world's most significant Orthodox icons with one of today's best-loved spiritual writers as your guide. "The Open Door provides an open window into a radically different approach to spiritual formation, one...
by Averky Taushev
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Writing in the tradition of biblical exegetes, such as St John Chrysostom, Blessed Theophylact of Bulgaria, and St Theophan the Recluse, the work of Archbishop Averky (Taushev) provides a commentary that is firmly grounded in the teaching of the Church, manifested in its liturgical hymnography and...
The Rest of the Bible
A Guide to the Old Testament of the Early Church
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
A beautiful widow risks her life to defend her people while men cower in fear. A young man takes a journey with an archangel and faces down a demon in order to marry a woman seven times widowed. A reprobate king repents and miraculously turns back toward God. A Jewish exile plays a game of riddles...
Being the Church
An Eastern Orthodox Understanding of Church Growth
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
If the divine liturgy really is as beautiful as we claim, wouldn't more people attend? Wouldn't the church grow? Driven by our desire for growth, we count, we analyze, we make charts, and we strategize, but often with few discernible results. That is probably the result of focusing on secondary...
In the Eyes of Your Creator
Truly Valuing Yourself and Others
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Many of the ills of our society can be traced to the sense of worthlessness that afflicts so many people today. If we only understood in the depths of our being how valuable we are in the eyes of our Creator, we could learn to obey Christ’s commandment to love our neighbor as ourselves. Priest and...
Practices of the Self and Spiritual Practices
Michel Foucault and the Eastern Christian Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
In this book Sergey Horujy undertakes a novel comparative analysis of Foucault’s theory of practices of the self and the Eastern Orthodox ascetical tradition of Hesychasm, revealing great affinity between these two radical “subject-less” approaches to anthropology. As he facilitates the dialogue...
Chosen for His People
A Biography of Patriarch Tikhon
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow (Vasily Ivanovich Bellavin, 1865–1925) is one of the most important figures of both Russian and Orthodox Church history in the 20th century. Yet 90 years after his death this remains the only complete biography ever published in the English language. It has now been...
by Melinda Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Lydia’s life is turning upside down. Her family has converted to Orthodox Christianity without her, she’s just about to leave home for college, one of her friends is pregnant, and soon she’ll be facing all the trials and temptations encountered by every young adult who’s on her own for the...
Christian-Muslim Relations in Egypt
Politics, Society and Interfaith Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
he subject of Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle East – and indeed in the West – attracts much academic and media attention. Nowhere is this more the case than in Egypt, which has the largest Christian community in the Middle East, estimated at 6-10 per cent of the national population. Henrik...
by Pavel Florensky
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Profound writings by one of the twentieth century's greatest polymaths
"Perhaps the most remarkable person devoured by the Gulag" is how Alexandr Solzhenitsyn described Pavel Florensky, a Russian Orthodox mathematician, scientist, linguist, art historian, philosopher, theologian,...
Personhood in the Byzantine Christian Tradition
Early, Medieval, and Modern Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Bringing together international scholars from across a range of linked disciplines to examine the concept of the person in the Greek Christian East, Personhood in the Byzantine Christian Tradition stretches in its scope from the New Testament to contemporary debates surrounding personhood in Eastern...
My Life in Christ
The Spiritual Journals of St John of Kronstadt, Part 1
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
My Life in Christ has been read by millions, making it one of the most beloved modern works of Orthodox Christian spirituality. In this new edition, the English translation has been thoroughly revised and freshly typeset to make St John's own words more accessible to today's reader. The bite-sized...