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 ...
Originally published in this translation in 1966, a collection of texts on prayer, drawn from Greek and Russian Orthodox sources. The anthology serves the devotional needs of English-speaking members of the Orthodox Church but is also relevant to the meaning and practice of prayer in other Christian traditions.
In part one the author describes the history of the Eastern Church over the last 2000 years with particular reference to its problems in 20th-century Russia. In part two he explains the beliefs and worship of the Orthodox today and he considers the possibilities of reunion between East and West.
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