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    Review: A Silent Patriarch(Post)

    When I was a small child in the early 1970s, my parents used to hang photographs of the Coptic Patriarch Kyrillos VI in our Brooklyn apartment. The photographs would invariably show the Patriar ...

    Review: Taught By God(Post)

    The serious student of the Bible who is also an Orthodox Christian always had a particular quandary. He could try the commentary of the Fathers, which were soundly Orthodox, but might struggle with a ...

    Review: Harp of Glory(Post)

    From the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Comes a distinctly African hymn of praise to the Virgin Mary:For the roots of the tree of your love are entwined within my heart, And that tree grows in stature a ...

    Review: Orthodox Christianity, Vol. 5: Sacraments and Other Rites(Post)

    The Sacraments of the Church as “Arsenal”In the fifth volume of his masterwork series, Orthodox Christianity (published by St Vladimir’s Seminary [SVS] Press), Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev describes ...

    Despondency: The Spiritual Teaching of Evagrius Ponticus on Acedia(Post)

    It has become plainly obvious that, in current years, amidst wars, rumors of wars, disease, distraction, and the seemingly forced uprooting of nuclear family life in the secular west, we are being as ...

    Review: His Life Is Mine(Post)

    His Life Is Mine. The title of this work stands as something of a promise fulfilled. Having believed that life—true life, eternal life—is found in Christ, the Russian Athonite monk, Sophrony set abou ...

    Christ the Conqueror of Hell(Post)

    Though not encyclical, such as other tomes (The Departure of the Soul jumps to mind), Christ the Conqueror of Hell is a fantastic insight into the deep liturgical, dogmatic, and poetic roots of our O ...

    Review: On Christian Leadership(Post)

    On Christian Leadership is a truly fantastic in depth study of the friendship and working relationship between two giants of 20th century Orthodox theology: Frs Georges Florovsky and Alexander Schmem ...

    Review: On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy(Post)

    The Most Profound Church Father of the 7th Century Has a Simple Message: Go to Church!During these months of lock-down, when so many of us have been denied the consolation of the Church, the Divine L ...

    Review: The Sermon on the Mount(Post)

    The Sermon on the Mount is the single largest teaching of our Lord Jesus. It is thick with content; it contains the Beatitudes, the Lord’s Prayer, and meditations on the relationship between the o ...

    Review: How to Be a Sinner(Post)

    The Sinner Identity Done RightHaving come up with a provocative and compelling title, Peter Bouteneff more than delivers on its promise in How to Be a Sinner from St Vladimir’s Seminary (SVS) Pr ...

    About SVS Press(Page)

    Welcome to our online bookstore! Founded in 1968, St Vladimir's Seminary Press is the largest and most active publisher of Orthodox Christian books in the English language, with more than 500 titles ...