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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: Letters to Saint Olympia(Post)Feeling Depressed? Try a Church FatherDepression has been called the malady of the modern age. And yet there is no shortage of psychotherapies, medicines, and self-help gurus promising relief. Letter ...
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: Beauty For Ashes(Post)The Church As Mystical Vessel and the Bishop as Protagonist The purpose of the Church is not to create individuals who do something, but rather who are something. That was what author and academic St ...
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 ...
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 ...
On Wealth and Poverty - New Edition(Post)To the uninitiated, St John Chrysostom can seem daunting, heady at first glance. Yet here we have a collection of homilies that are, together, approachable, engaging, and despite being nearly 1,700 y ...
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: The Time Has Come(Post)The Time Has Come is much more than a collection of articles by renown Orthodox theologians debating the thorniest issue of the American Church -- it is a mini seminary education.This hardback commem ...
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 ...
Review: Further Up and Further In: Orthodox Conversations with C.S. Lewis on Scripture & Theology(Post)The cover of Further Up and Further In by Edith M. Humphrey shows a majestic view of a mountain range. It is apt because Humphrey offers to be your theological guide to viewing the works of C.S.