Orthodox Churches category: 320 books
by Dr. John (Ellsworth) Hutchison-Hall
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This is the first, and only, compendium to be written of the Lives of Orthodox Saints of the British Isles. Covering October through December, this fourth and final volume provides an enlightening guide to 161 of these inspiring and historic Orthodox men and women.
These saints were not only...
Facing East
A Pilgrim's Journey into the Mysteries o
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
The Classic Story of a Family's Pilgrimage
into the Orthodox Church
Veiled in the smoke of incense, the Eastern Orthodox Church has long been an enigma to the Western world. Yet, as Frederica Mathewes-Green discovered, it is a vital, living faith, rich in ritual beauty and steadfast in integrity....
Praying with the Senses
Contemporary Orthodox Christian Spirituality in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
How do people experience spirituality through what they see, hear, touch, and smell? Sonja Luehrmann and an international group of scholars assess how sensory experience shapes prayer and ritual practice among Eastern Orthodox Christians. Prayer, even when performed privately, is considered as a shared...
by St. John Chrysostom
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
***This book is fully formatted and linked for easy navigation. It also includes a biography of St. John Chrysostom and an introduction to the famous Divine Liturgy. This is the only copy you'll ever need!***
The Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom is the most celebrated Divine Liturgy...
Modern Orthodox Thinkers
From the Philokalia to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2015
Andrew Louth, one of the most respected authorities on Orthodoxy, introduces us to twenty key thinkers from the last two centuries. He begins with the Philokalia, the influential Orthodox collection published in 1782 which marked so many subsequent writers. The colorful characters, poets and thinkers...
by St. John of Damascus, Wyatt North
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
This edition of Against the Pelagians comes complete with a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents, divided by each book. St. Jerome (formerly Saint Hierom) was a Roman Christian priest, confessor, theologian and historian, and who became a Doctor of the Church. He was the son of Eusebius, of the city of...
Psalter for Prayer
An Adaptation of the Classic Miles Coverdale Translation, Augmented by Prayers and Instructional Material Drawn from Church Slavonic and Other Orthodox Christian Sources
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Reaching back hundreds of years, this volume is the first major English edition to include all the prayers needed to read the Slavic Psalter at home in the Orthodox tradition. The contents include many texts traditionally printed in Orthodox Psalters and not easily found in English. With psalms and...
Bartholomew
Apostle and Visionary
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Surrounded on all sides by Islam, the beloved Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew continues to impact the world for Christ from his seat in Constantinople, a city central to Christian history.
The Orthodox Church, that great beacon of the East, now boasts 300 million members worldwide....
Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent
Faith and Power in the New Russia
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2008
Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent is the first book to fully explore the expansive and ill-understood role that Russia's ancient Christian faith has played in the fall of Soviet Communism and in the rise of Russian nationalism today. John and Carol Garrard tell the story of how the Orthodox Church's moral...
Holy Rus'
The Rebirth of Orthodoxy in the New Russia
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
A fascinating, vivid, and on-the-ground account of Russian Orthodoxy’s resurgence A bold experiment is taking place in Russia. After a century of being scarred by militant, atheistic communism, the Orthodox Church has become Russia’s largest and most significant nongovernmental organization. As it...
by Akasha Lonsdale
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
In today's multicultural society we are increasingly likely to meet and become friends with people from different religious backgrounds, and to find ourselves attending an unfamiliar ceremony. When this happens, there can be few of us who know exactly what to expect, or are confident about how to...
Nihil Obstat
Religion, Politics, and Social Change in East-Central Europe and Russia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Nihil Obstat—Latin for "nothing stands in the way"—examines the interplay between religion and politics in East-Central Europe and Russia. While focusing on the postcommunist, late twentieth century, Sabrina P. Ramet discusses developments as far back as the eleventh century to explain...
by Fr. Seraphim Rose
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
The spiritual realm after death defies observation, yet mankind persists in its desire to peer beyond this threshold—a threshold through which we all must pass. “You will not die. Your body will die, but you will go over into a different world, being alive, remembering yourself and...
by Lazar Puhalo
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
The theo-anthropology of Archbishop Lazar Puhalo. One of the very few Orthodox theologians of culture and society, Archbishop Lazar offers an Orthodox Christian worldview and theology of culture and society that are wholly consistent with the Fathers of the Church and the Gospel. Dealing in depth...