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Thirty Steps to Heaven

The Ladder of Divine Ascent for All Walks of Life

by Vassilios Papavassiliou
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015

Many laypeople have attempted to read the great spiritual classic, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, but have been frustrated in attempting to apply the lessons of this monastic text to their everyday lives in the world. In Thirty Steps, Archimandrite Vassilios interprets...
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by Peter Frankopan
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012

According to tradition, the First Crusade began at Pope Urban II’s instigation and culminated in July 1099, when western European knights liberated Jerusalem. But what if the First Crusade’s real catalyst lay far to the east of Rome? Countering nearly a millennium of scholarship, Peter Frankopan reveals the First Crusade’s untold history.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013

This classic of world spiritual literature is the firsthand account of a pilgrim's journey as he endeavors to live out Saint Paul's instruction to "pray without ceasing." The narrator, an unnamed nineteenth-century peasant, sets out on his pilgrimage with nothing but a Bible, a rosary, and...
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by Albert S. Rossi, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015

In order to become a healing presence for others, we must first be healed ourselves—through an active relationship with the great Healer, Christ. Drawing on the teachings of the Fathers and saints of the Church, Dr. Rossi gently points the way toward deepening our love for God and for each other so that others may experience Christ through us.
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by Metropolitan of Mesogaia and Lavreotiki Nikolaos
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018

If only we could invest a moment in the Kingdom of God and realise that the returns are extremely high. So high that in the Kingdom there is no time, no fear, no inhibition, inferiority, insec urity, guilt – none of those things which trouble us in this life. This is the blessing of God’s freedom....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012

"By the grace of God I am a Christian man, by my actions a great sinner, and by calling a homeless wanderer of the humblest birth who roams from place to place. My worldly goods are a knapsack and some dried bread in it, and a Bible in my breast pocket. And that is all." With this modest...
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The Book of Mystical Chapters

Meditations on the Soul's Ascent, from the Desert Fathers and Other Early Christ ian Contemplatives

by John Anthony McGuckin
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2003

The early Christian monks of Egypt, Syria, and Palestine were the spiritual heroes of their age—fleeing the security of civilization for the desert, where they sought God in lives of prayer, contemplation, and radical simplicity. This book is a portable collection of their teachings, and those of...
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by Anastasia Volnaya
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017

A series of the works of the poet of Anastasia Volnaya dedicated to pictures of artists. Poetic illustrations to pictures, as modern writers, and to pictures of classics. The images which are given rise by Anastasia Volnaya allow to look in a new way at the known pictures, to see them from a different...
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by Anastasia Volnaya
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017

Time is temporarily – the chosen poetry, prose, and also a cycle of aphorisms of the Moscow poet and Anastasia Volnoy's prose writer (1972-2009). It will be interesting to all who are interested in the Russian modern poetry, lyrics, philosophical plots. Many works are devoted to belief and Christianity...
Cover of Apologia Against Those Who Decry Holy Images
by St. John Damascene
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012

Saint John of Damascus, also known as St. John Damascene (c. 676 4 December 749) was a Syrian Christian monk and priest. A polymath whose fields of interest and contribution included law, theology, philosophy, and music, before being ordained, he served as a Chief Administrator for the Islamic caliphate...
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Meditations for Pascha

Reflections on the Pentecostarion

by Vassilios Papavassiliou
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015

Far from being merely a “vacation from fasting,” the Pascha season is a time that, properly understood, can greatly enrich our faith. During the Pascha season, we celebrate and rejoice in our Lord’s Resurrection and we prepare for the great feast of the Holy Spirit descending upon us.
Cover of René Girard and Creative Reconciliation
by Cameron Thomson, Sandor Goodhart, Nadia Delicata
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014

The contribution of this book to the field of reconciliation is both theoretical and practical, recognizing that good theory guides effective practice and practice is the ground for compelling theory. Using a Girardian hermeneutic as a starting point, a new conceptual Gestalt emerges in these essays,...
Cover of Doctrine and Debate in the East Christian World, 300–1500
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

The reign of Constantine (306-37), the starting point for the series in which this volume appears, saw Christianity begin its journey from being just one of a number of competing cults to being the official religion of the Roman/Byzantine Empire. The involvement of emperors had the, perhaps inevitable,...
Cover of You Are Meant to Be Like Fire
by Sheila Murray-Nellis
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017

These poems explore how we communicate or fail to communicate with each other, with the natural world, and ultimately with the Divine. Poems of longing, of delight, and of loss reflect on how our relationship with nature mirrors our connection or lack of connection with God. "'When the...
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