Orthodox Churches category: 320 books
Orthodox Afterlife
2,000 Years of Afterlife Experiences of Orthodox Christians and a Biblical and Early Christian View of Heaven, Hell, and the Hereafter
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
15 years in the making, and after incorporating the guidance of several Orthodox scholars and theologians, this book gathers together a plethora of afterlife experiences of Orthodox Christians from all over the world, spanning 2,000 years of Christian history. The reader is taken on a journey from...
by Aristotle Papanikolaou
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Theosis, or the principle of divine-human communion, sparks the theological imagination of Orthodox Christians and has been historically important to questions of political theology. In The Mystical as Political: Democracy and Non-Radical Orthodoxy, Aristotle Papanikolaou argues that a political theology...
Eastern Orthodox Christianity and American Higher Education
Theological, Historical, and Contemporary Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Over the last two decades, the American academy has engaged in a wide-ranging discourse on faith and learning, religion and higher education, and Christianity and the academy. Eastern Orthodox Christians, however, have rarely participated in these conversations. The contributors to this volume aim...
by Elizabeth Theokritoff
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Orthodox Christian theology is often presented as the direct inheritor of the doctrine and tradition of the early Church. But continuity with the past is only part of the truth; it would be false to conclude that the eastern section of the Christian Church is in any way static. Orthodoxy, building...
Paulos Mar Gregorios
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Paulos Mar Greogorios: A Reader is a compilation of the selected writings of Paulos Mar Gregorios, a metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church of India and a former President of the World Council of Churches. The book deals with his thought in the areas of ecumenism, orthodox theology,...
Ivan Sergeevich Gagarin
The Search for Orthodox and Catholic Union
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2002
Ivan Sergeevich Gagarin analyzes questions of nationality and religious identity in nineteenth-century Russian history as reflected in the life of Jesuit priest Ivan Gagarin. A descendent of one of Russia's most ancient and politically powerful families, Father Ivan Gagarin, S.J. (1814-1882) dedicated...
Innovation in the Orthodox Christian Tradition?
The Question of Change in Greek Orthodox Thought and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
The relationship between tradition and innovation in Orthodox Christianity has often been problematic, filled with tensions and contradictions starting from the Byzantine era and running through the 19th and 20th centuries. For a long period of time scholars have typically assumed Greek Orthodoxy...
The People's Faith
The Liturgy of the Faithful in Orthodoxy
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
Works of liturgical theology tend to be produced by experts who draw from the sources and explain the meaning of the liturgy to the lay people. When such explanations are firmly grounded in the sources, the academy accepts and celebrates them as genuine works of liturgical theology. Liturgical theology...
by Gawdat Gabra
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
During the first century, Saint Mark brought Christianity to Egypt and in so doing, formed the basis for the Coptic Orthodox Church. Today, Copts, members of the Coptic Church, compromise the largest Christian Community in the Middle East. The Coptic Church is more than 19 centuries old and has produced...
Digital Orthodoxy in the Post-Soviet World
The Russian Orthodox Church and Web 2.0
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
This volume explores the relationship between new media and religion, focusing on the digital era's impact on the Russian Orthodox Church. A believer may now enter a virtual chapel, light a candle through drag-and-drop, send an online prayer request, or worship virtual icons and relics. In recent...
by Fr. Michael Butler, Andrew Morriss
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2013
Rooted in the Tradition of the Orthodox Church and its teaching on the relationship between God, humanity, and all creation, Fr. Michael Butler and Prof. Andrew Morriss offer a new contribution to Orthodox environmental theology. Too often policy recommendations from theologians and Church authorities...
by St. Seraphim of Sarov, Wyatt North
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
This edition of Acquisition on the Holy Spirit comes complete with a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents. Saint Seraphim of Sarov is one of the most renowned Russian monks and mystics in the Orthodox Church. He is generally considered the greatest of the 19th century startsy (elders) and, arguably, the...
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
The Essential Texts
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
Two leading academic scholars offer the first comprehensive source reader on the Eastern Orthodox church for the English-speaking world. Designed specifically for students and accessible to readers with little or no previous knowledge of theology or religious history, this essential, one-of-a-kind work...
by J. M. Hussey ; Andrew Louth
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
This book describes the role of the medieval Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire (c.600-c.1453). As an integral part of its policy it was (as in western Christianity) closely linked with many aspects of everyday life both official and otherwise. It was a formative period for Orthodoxy. It had...