Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches Books

The present volume represents the most substantial theological contribution in Pavel Florensky's great multi-volume "anthropidicy," At the Watersheds of Thought: The Elements of a Concrete Metaphysics. Florensky argues that his epoch (the early 20th...

Nicolai Damasceni Continens Annotationes Et Emendationes (1811) a Metochitae, Theodori est liber qui continet annotationes et emendationes Nicolai Damasceni. Theodorus Metochitae, Byzantinus scriptor et philosophus, notae suas ad Nicolai Damasceni opera...

Una obra teológica que explora la vida de dos apóstoles cristianos y su legado en la Iglesia Católica Ortodoxa. La obra es una importante contribución al estudio de la religión y la historia.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally...

The Book of Jonah is one of the most loved books of the Old Testament. It's a captivating story of repentance and obedience to God's calling which has been captured in this book, Jonah for Teens as part of the Orthodox Bible Study Series. This book will...

[For info in English, see: www.maranathahouse.info] “Vader Zacharias [is] werkelijk een van de meest diepgewortelde getuigen van de Traditie ... onder hen die nog in leven zijn ... en ik weet zeker, dat u in zijn woorden de helderheid en de...

[For info in English, see: www.maranathahouse.info] “Als geestelijke zoon van de [...] zalige oudvader Sophrony van Essex (+1993), en daarmee de geestelijke kleinzoon van de heilige Silouan de Athoniet (+1938), heeft vader Zacharias de zeldzame en...

[For info in English, see: www.maranathahouse.info] “In [dit boek] spoort archimandriet Zacharias ons aan te leven in gedachtenis aan onze ‘eerste liefde’, met andere woorden, steeds dichter te naderen tot God. ... Hij schetst voor ons...

[For info in English, see: www.maranathahouse.info]"Wat is de mens dat Gij hem hebt grootgemaakt? Of dat Gij Uw aandacht op hem vestigt?" (LXX Job 7:17)De traditionele oud-christelijke theologie is geen theoretische kwestie, maar bovenal de...

It is a disconcerting fact that decisions for Orthodox Christians living in North America are currently dictated by interests of foreign governments and patriarchates, all which contribute to spiritual indifference among the faithful. This collection of...

From the AuthorEpochs of relative spiritual poverty alternate with periods of spiritual prosperity. In each century however there can be found spiritual torch-bearers, who showed the path to their contemporaries, who revealed to them God's will; through...

Anyone who prays, or has tried to pray and given up in discouragement, knows praying-really praying-is not easy. Praying consistently seems almost impossible. Too often and too easily, prayer becomes a burden-one more item on an already overcrowded to-do...

Many centuries ago in the wilds of Africa, a startling and mystical friendship developed between a lion and a saint. St. Gerasim served the lion by removing a thorn from its paw, and in turn the lion served St. Gerasim and his monastery for the rest of...

This is a spiritual notebook diary from the Coptic Orthodox Church to aid in confessions. It includes prayers for repentance, confession, God's guidance and accompaniment. The majority of the book provides a means to track daily prayers, prostrations,...

The question of Oneness, the unification of the Christian Faith was the subject of my first book published in 2015. The present treatise dealing with the Unification of the Independent Orthodox Churches in the USA, proposes an alternative way to the...

With this declaration of love and devotion for Russian Tsar-Martyr Nicholas II and his Royal Martyr Family, artist and author Ariane Trifunovic Montemuro pays back a Debt of Love to them for their holy lives and their martyrdom on behalf of Orthodox...

Our Father who art in heaven. . . . Two thousand years have elapsed since these words were first spoken from the Mount of the Beatitudes. Since that time countless sermons and commentaries have echoed these words, but never has the Lord's Prayer been...

Jacob of Edessa was a seventh century polymath who witnessed the coming of Islam. In this collection of papers, specialists discuss the life and works of this literary figure with emphasis on the cultural landscape of the seventh century. Contributors...

This book originated in Bishop Yohanna Gregorios' dissatisfaction with the lack of a study which would show where the music of the Syrian church came from, how it was accepted in the church, the basis on which it entered the church, the regional...

Faith is the means by which we understand "the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible" (Heb 1:2-3)

The Maronite Church is one of twenty-two Eastern Catholic Churches in communion with the Pope of Rome. Her patriarch is in Lebanon. Forty-three bishops and approximately five million faithful make up her presence throughout the world.The story of Maron,...

The Life Of Samuel Of Kalamun is a hagiographical account of the life of a Coptic monk who lived between about 597 and 695 AD. He entered the monastery of Scetis at the age of 18 but when the Emperor Heraclius sent an agent to impose a new Christological...

Idleness. Apathy. Restlessness. Procrastination. These are symptoms, of what early Christian theologians called despondency (acedia), a spiritual sickness rooted in a lack of care or effort. A condition as old as the ancients, despondency thrives in...

In this companion volume to the popular When You Pray, L. Joseph Letendre explores the underpinnings of the Church's practice of fasting and of ascetic discipline in general. Rather than being preoccupied with the details of food regulations, he helps...

The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ expounded during Holy Week is a profound respective interval for contemplation, understanding, soul searching, repentance, and wholehearted gratitude for His immense love and the toll of His sacrifice for us...

Many laypeople have attempted to read the great spiritual classic, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, but have been frustrated in attempting to apply the lessons of this monastic text to their everyday lives in the world. In Thirty...

In dit helder geschreven boek, wordt vanuit een orthodox perspectief een zeer gedetailleerde visie gegeven op de geschiedenis, de theologie en de spiritualiteit van de Orthodoxe Kerk. Belangrijke thema's, zoals het schisma tussen Byzantium en Rome, het...

JCSSS is a refereed journal published annually by the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies Inc. (CSSS), located at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. JCSSS contains the transcripts of...

This book is a part of series of Causes of Celebrations written by Moshe Bar Kepha (813-903). These Causes are unique in that they demonstrate a new genre of the Syriac literature initiated by the East Syriac authors at the beginning of the sixth century...

Originally published in Armenian, this comprehensive introduction to Aramean and Syriac studies provides a gateway to the history, language, culture, and religion of the Aramean/Syriac people from the ancient times, through to the  modern day...

THE CHALLENGE OF THE CORONAVIRUS FOR THE CONTEMPORARY HUMAN BEING. A PROPOSED INTERPRETATION OF THE CURRENT TIMES FROM THE GAIN PERSPECTIVE. CONTEMPORARY EXPECTATIONS CONCERNING HUMAN POSSIBILITIES. A EUCHARISTIC APPROACH. THE MIRACLES UNDER OUR OWN EYES...

Monastic life declares to the whole world the possibility of living a life of purity and righteousness on this earth despite all its worldly temptations. It declares that Christ our Lord can still live in people's hearts, people of this earth, not of...

God's delight is in mankind; God's love for humanity exceeds any imagination and the incarnation of God's Son by becoming human is the biggest proof of God's love for us and the strongest evidence of God's providence for the sake of proclaiming His love...

Foreword by the PublisherIn the Christian tradition the Patericon is a collection of short stories which contains the description of the lives, spiritual practices and, sometimes, teachings of the Christian practitioners, monks or ascetics...

This book comprises a compilation of 125 articles in Arabic, of His Grace Bishop Youssef's articles which were published in the El Keraza Magazine (the main Christian magazine published by the Coptic Patriarchate in Egypt).

We experience Orthodox Joy most prayerfully and powerfully during the Divine Liturgy. Focusing on seven virtues, this book offers practical advice for our daily journey by calling us to strive towards living a different virtue every day. After receiving...

A Companion to St. Symeon the New Theologian is an accessible guide to one of the great mystical writers of the Eastern Christian tradition. His impassioned writings bring to life the monasticism of the Byzantine Empire at the end of the tenth century...

Das Buch ""Der Hl. Theodor von Studion, sein Leben und Wirken"" von Georg Aloys Schneider aus dem Jahr 1900 besch�����ftigt sich mit dem Leben und Werk des heiligen Theodor von Studion. Theodor von Studion war ein bedeutender M������nch und Theologe im...

""Der Heilige Cyrillus"" ist ein Buch von Johann Mader, das im Jahr 1891 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es beschreibt das Leben und Wirken des heiligen Cyrillus, einem christlichen Missionar und Bischof, der im 9. Jahrhundert lebte. Das Buch beleuchtet seine...

De S. Theodoro Studita Reformatore Monachorum Basilianorum est liber auctore Schiwietz, Stephano editus et anno MDCCCXCVI publicatus. In hoc libro, auctor vitam et opus Sancti Theodori Studitae, qui monachorum Basilianorum reformatorem fuit, describit...

The Synaxarium Alexandrinum is a medieval Coptic Christian hagiography that chronicles the lives of saints commemorated in the Coptic Orthodox liturgical calendar. The work is divided into twelve volumes and contains accounts of over fourteen hundred...

The Great Lent is divided into seven weeks, each commencing with a significant event on Sunday. The Church has selected these Sunday readings specifically so that we might benefit on our journey through the fifty-five day period of fasting, giving us...

The Church of the Holy Spirit, written by Russian priest and scholar Nicholas Afanasiev (1893-1966), is one of the most important works of twentieth-century Orthodox theology. Afanasiev was a member of the "Paris School" of émigré intellectuals who...

En nuestro mundo roto, muchos cristianos ven su progreso espiritual obstaculizado o estancado por heridas psicológicas de su pasado. Pero estas heridas pueden ser sanadas con el tratamiento adecuado. El sacerdote y terapeuta Joshua Makoul muestra cómo...

What is the role of gender in Eastern Christianity? In this volume, Orthodox experts of different disciplines and cultural backgrounds tackle this complex question. They engage critically with gender issues within their own tradition. Rather than simply...

Even in the twenty-first century, critical and creative engagement with modern and postmodern philosophy is still a rarity in Orthodox circles. This collection of essays makes a contribution to overcoming this deficit. Eight scholars from six different...