Since its first publication thirty years ago, Timothy Ware's book has become established throughout the English-speaking world as the standard introduction to the Orthodox Church. Orthodoxy continues to be a subject of enormous interest among Western Christians, and the author believes that an understanding of its standpoint is necessary before ...
Written between the 4th and 15th centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition, the texts published in Greek in 1782 as "The Philokalia" were later translated into Slavonic and then Russian. This is the fourth of five volumes of a translation from the original Greek, and contains some of the most important writings in the ...
Thousands have fallen in love with the anonymously authored book The Way of a Pilgrim--the account of an ordinary man's encounter with the Eastern Orthodox Christian practice of the Jesus Prayer, which consists of the constant repetition of the short phrase, "Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy upon me." Here is the perfect introduction to this life ...
Insights on death and resurrection, repentance, worship, asceticism, theology of time, vocation and martyrdom. Also discusses the possibility of universal salvation. Includes index.
Selections from the spiritual classic of the Christian East, in a beautiful small gift edition. The Philokalia is an anthology of teachings on prayer written between the fourth and fifteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition. This beautiful edition features a sewn binding, a two-color interior with charming ...
The whole question of the place of women in the church, their sharing in responsibilities and the exercise of authority within it -- which implies access to the ordained ministry -- represents one of the major challenges posed for the traditional Christian churches by the modern Western world. Initially the Orthodox churches maintained that this ...
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