Orthodox Churches category: 320 books
Orthodox Life
Digital Edition: Vol.61, No. 4, 2010 Through Vol. 62, No. 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Orthodox Life is a Journal published six times a year in English. It provides inspiring but practical articles on the spiritual life, contemporary moral issues, practical matters of church life, theological questions, and book reviews. This digital edition includes fifty articles that appeared in...
Embassy, Emigrants and Englishmen
The Three Hundred Year History of a Russian Orthodox Church in London
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
This is the unlikely history of a centuries old church located at the heart of England’s capital city. Founded in the early-18th century by a Greek Archbishop from Alexandria in Egypt, the church was aided by the nascent Russian Empire of Tsar Peter the Great and joined by Englishmen finding in...
Tradition Alive
On the Church and the Christian Life in Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2003
Michael Plekon's Tradition Alive presents a collection of essays highlighting not only the vibrant tradition of 20th century Eastern Orthodox thought, but also the necessity of its inclusion in the theological canon constructed mainly by Western Christian thinkers. Ranging from the thought of the...
by Archbishop Demetrios of America
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Ways of the Lord: Perspectives on Sharing the Gospel of Christ by His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America has recently been published by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America and is now available. Dedicated to His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the book is a collection of major...
by St. John Maximovitch
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
A right understanding of Mary, the Mother of God is essential for a right understanding of Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God. When her image is distorted, the image of her Son also becomes distorted.
This concise little book is a classic exposition of how the...
The Papacy and the Orthodox
Sources and History of a Debate
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
The Papacy and the Orthodox examines the centuries-long debate over the primacy and authority of the Bishop of Rome, especially in relation to the Christian East, and offers a comprehensive history of the debate and its underlying theological issues. Siecienski masterfully brings together all of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
The category of the “West” has played a particularly significant role in the modern Eastern Orthodox imagination. It has functioned as an absolute marker of difference from what is considered to be the essence of Orthodoxy and, thus, ironically has become a constitutive aspect of the modern Orthodox...
by Rev Dr Sarah Hinlicky Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Elisabeth Behr-Sigel (1907-2005), a convert to Orthodoxy in her early twenties and a central figure of Orthodox theology among Russian émigrés in Paris, first began to reflect on the question of women in the priesthood in 1976. Initially supporting the general consensus that priesthood would be...
by Alexander V. Gavrilin
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This book is basically a celebration of life of Archbishop John (Garklavs), a diocesan Orthodox Christian hierarch of Latvia (1943-1944) and the Diocese of Chicago and the Midwest in America (1949-1980). It is a valuable source of information for historians and a valuable spiritual aide to all Christians,...
The Philokalia
A Classic Text of Orthodox Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
The Philokalia (literally "love of the beautiful or good") is, after the Bible, the most influential source of spiritual tradition within the Orthodox Church. First published in Greek in 1782 by St. Nicodemos of the Holy Mountain and St. Macarios of Corinth, the Philokalia includes works...
Orthodox Christianity in Imperial Russia
A Source Book on Lived Religion
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
From sermons and clerical reports to personal stories of faith, this book of translated primary documents reveals the lived experience of Orthodox Christianity in 19th- and early 20th-century Russia. These documents allow us to hear the voices of educated and uneducated writers, of clergy and laity,...
by Andrew Louth
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
With an estimated 250 million adherents, the Orthodox Church is the second largest Christian body in the world. This absorbing account of the essential elements of Eastern Orthodox thought deals with the Trinity, Christ, sin, humanity and creation as well as praying, icons, the sacraments and liturgy.
Bread, Water, Wine and Oil
An Orthodox Christian Experience of God
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Worry, despair, insecurity, fear of death . . . these are our daily companions, and even though we attempt to ignore them or try to crowd them out, they are there, waiting for us in our quieter moments.
It is precisely where we hurt most that the experience of the Orthodox Church has much...
Toward an Ecology of Transfiguration
Orthodox Christian Perspectives on Environment, Nature, and Creation
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Can Orthodox Christianity offer spiritual resources uniquely suited to the environmental concerns of today? This book makes the case emphatically that it can indeed. In addition to being the first substantial and comprehensive collection of essays, in any language, to address environmental issues...