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Review: Hymns of Repentance(Post)
Of the likely hundreds of kontakia, or hymns, composed by St Romanos the Melodist, fifty-nine of his genuine “sermon-poems” survive today, yet he is known mainly as the author of the Akathist Hymn to ...
Review: On Christian Ethics(Post)The Christian life is even more demanding than you think, offers Basil the GreatIf you have ever been tempted to think that God grades sins on a sort of sliding scale, that some sins are more scandal ...
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 ...
On the Incarnation (Post)Ask the average Christian why it was necessary for God to bring about the incarnation of Christ, the central mystery of Christian doctrine, and he might feel that he knows the answer. He might say si ...
Review: Becoming Human: Meditations on Christian Anthropology in Word and Image(Post)God’s Human Death as the Doorway to LifeIn fact, death is the only unavoidable partof life.It is the only thing which I can be sure of,and, thus,the only thing which I must contemplate.Death is a nec ...
Thou Art a Vineyard - Michael Legaspi(Post)Thou Art a Vineyard: A reflection on the season of Great Lent from St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary Associate Professor of Old Testament, Michael LegaspiLast year, in the middle of Gr ...
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 ...
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 ...