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The Way of a Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Continues His Way
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Reginald M. French (Translator)
Charmingly written, filled with scenes of Russian peasant life, The Way of a Pilgrim and its sequel, The Pilgrim Continues His Way, portray the traditions and interior life of Eastern Orthodox spirituality, bringing to the West the soul of Eastern Christianity.
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The Orthodox Church: Second Edition
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Timothy Ware, Kallistos Ware, Bishop, Kallistos
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 ...
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The Philokalia, Volume 4: The Complete Text; Compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain & St. Markarios of Corinth
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Kallistos Ware, Bishop (Editor), Philip Sherrard (Editor), G E Palmer (Editor)
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 ...
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Father Arseny, 1893-1973: Priest, Prisoner, Spiritual Father: Being the Narratives Compiled by the Servant of God Alexander Concerning His Spiritual Father
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Vera Bouteneff (Translator)
Gives stirring glimpses of Fr Arseny's life in a Soviet prison camp and tells the stories of whose lives were transfigured through their connection with him.
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The nine questions people ask about Judaism
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Dennis Prager
Written for the educated, skeptical, searching Jew, and for the non-Jew who wants to understand the meaning of Judaism, this thought-provoking book has become a widely-read introduction to the oldest living religion, consisely and engagingly presenting Judaism as the rational, moral alternative for contemporary man.
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The Philokalia, Volume 2: The Complete Text; Compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain & St. Markarios of Corinth
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G E H Palmer (Translator), G H E Palmer (Translator), Philip Sherrard
"The Philokalia" is a collection of texts written between the fourth and the fifteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition. First published in Greek in 1782, then translated into Slavonic and later into Russian, "The Philokalia" has exercised an influence in the recent history of the Orthodox Church far greater than ...
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Byzantium: The Decline and Fall
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John Julius Norwich
In this, the third and final volume of his brilliant trilogy that began with Byzantium: The Early Centuries and continued with Byzantium: The Apogee, Norwich provides a spellbinding account of the city's fall--a story whose climax is worthy of Homer himself. of photos.
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Early Christian fathers
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Cyril C Richardson, Th.D., D.D. (Editor)
Long recognized for the quality of its translations, introductions, explanatory notes, and indexes, the Library of Christian Classics provides scholars and students with modern English translations of some of the most significant Christian theological texts in history. Through these works?each written prior to the end of the sixteenth century ...
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The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality
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Kyriacos C Markides
Atop Mount Athos in Greece, Father Maximos patiently answers the questions of Kyriacos Markides, whose personal journey back to Orthodox Christianity brought him to Father Maximos's monastery in the first place. The book recounts his sabbatical with Father Maximos and provides clear answers to readers about the nature of Christianity and the roots ...
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On the Incarnation: The Treatise de Incarnatione Verbi Dei
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Saint Anthanasius, Athanasius, C S Lewis (Introduction by)
A universally acknowledged masterpiece of fourth-century patristic theology. As C. S. Lewis observes in his introduction: "When I first opened De Incarnatione I soon discovered by a very simple test that I was reading a masterpiece, for only a master mind could have written so deeply on such a subject with such classical simplicity."
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Meaning of Icons
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Leonid Ouspensky, Vladimir Lossky
The classic work on the techniques, language and interpretation of icons in the context of theology and faith. Commentary and analysis of the main types of icons. Lavishly illustrated, with 160 pages of text with drawings, 13 b/w and 51 color plates.
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On the Holy Spirit
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St Basil the Great, Basil, David Anderson (Translator)
This classic exposition of Trinitarian doctrine eloquently sets forth the distinction yet perpetual communion of the divine Persons. Without explicitly calling the Spirit "God, " St Basil demonstrates that He, like the Son, is of the same nature with the Father.
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Byzantium: The Apogee
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John Julius Norwich
Volume 2 of the series. With 32 pages of illustrations, and 7 maps.
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Orthodox Study Bible-OE-With Some NKJV: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World
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Thomas Nelson Publishers (Creator)
The "Orthodox Study Bible" presents the Bible of the early church and the church of the early Bible. The text is presented with commentary from the ancient Christian perspective that speaks to those seeking a deeper experience of the roots of their faith.
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For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
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Nathan Englander
This collection of stories by Nathan Englander, a former Orthodox Jew from Long Island who relocated to Jerusalem, focuses on Jews whose lives have been changed by a moral crisis, or a sexual one. The stories are set in the New York City area, in the Soviet Union, and in Israel. A New York Times Notable Book in 1999. Englander is the recipient of ...
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The Philokalia, Volume 1: The Complete Text; Compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain & St. Markarios of Corinth
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G E H Palmer (Translator), Philip Sherrard (Translator), Kallistos Ware, Bishop (Translator)
Gathers Orthodox Christian texts written between the fourth and eighth centuries about spiritual problems that can face every Christian.
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The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land
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Donna Rosenthal
Rosenthal explores a people who, while consciously living in a war zone, contribute to one of the most vibrant civic societies anywhere. It is the story of ordinary people living in an extraordinary place.
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The Great Church in Captivity: A Study of the Patriarchate of Constantinople from the Eve of the Turkish Conquest to the Greek War of Independence
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Sir Steven Runciman
This is Sir Steven Runciman's established and widely admired classic account of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, first published in 1968. The Great Church, as the Greeks called the Orthodox Patriarchate, was the spiritual centre of the Byzantine world. The Church's survival during the four centuries of Turkish rule which followed the fall of ...
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The Way of a Pilgrim
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Helen Bacovcin (Translator), Walter Ciszek (Foreword by)
A classic of Russian spirituality, this is the tale of a 19th-century peasant who seeks the truth with humility, finding joy in every aspect of life.
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Faith of the Early Fathers
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William A Jurgens (Selected by)
Taken together, these three volumes represent a basic English-language reference book of patristic works. Volume 1 ends circa 382; Volume 2 concludes with Julian of Eclanum (d. 454); Volume 3 ends with St. John of Damascene (d. 749).
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Centering Prayer: Renewing an Ancient Christian Prayer Form
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M Basil Pennington, Father, O.C.S.O.
Readers will learn how to relax for prayer, how to listen and be directed by the Other, and how to handle the pain and distractions that stifle attempts at achieving the highest possible communication with God.
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The Philokalia, Volume 3: The Complete Text; Compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain & St. Markarios of Corinth
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G E H Palmer (Translator), G H E Palmer (Translator), Philip Sherrard
Written between the 4th and 15th centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition, the texts published in 1782 as "The Philokalia" were later translated into Slavonic and then Russian. This third of four volumes contains works dating mainly from the 11th and 12th centuries. St Peter of Damaskos, the chief author, offers a clear ...
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Gifts of the Desert: The Forgotten Path of Christian Spirituality
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Kyriacos C Markides
In his previous book, The Mountain of Silence, Markides introduced us to the essential spiritual nature of Eastern Orthodoxy in a series of lively conversations with Father Maximos the widely revered charismatic Orthodox bishop and former abbot of the isolated monastery on Mount Athos. In GIFTS OF THE DESERT, Markides continues his ...
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The Art of Prayer: An Orthodox Anthology
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Igumen Chariton, Timothy Ware (Editor), E M Palmer (Translator)
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.
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A short history of Byzantium
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John Julius Norwich
With wit, intelligence and his trademark eye for riveting detail, John Julius Norwich has brought together the most important and fascinating events from his trilogy of the rise and fall of the Byzantine empire.
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