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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: Seven Days on the Roads of France(Post)Anyone who wants to know more about Vladimir Lossky, the man behind several grand theological works, must not miss out on the sheer pleasure of reading Seven Days on the Roads of France, published ...
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 ...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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 ...
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 ...
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SVS Press Club Information(Page)Announcing the new SVS Press Book Club Receive Every New SVS Press Book While Supporting the Mission of Orthodox Publishing Club members automatically receive new SVS Press books at a 30% disc ...