Православно-догматическое богословие. То (Russian History Books)
by Макарий
At once a comprehensive study of Eastern Orthodoxy - its historical development and theology - The Orthodox Church is also an engaging assessment of Orthodoxy's political role in today's secularized Western world. Scholarly, timely, and always thought provoking, The Orthodox Church provides Orthodoxy with the long-awaited voice to engage in a meaningful dialog with contemporary Western culture. A major new full length study of the Orthodox Church written by one of the leading Orthodox histor...
A Pastoral Guide to the Holy Mysteries
by Synod of the Orthodox Christian Patriarchate of Antoch and All the East
Eastern Christianity in the Modern Middle East (Culture and Civilization in the Middle East)
The Middle East is the birthplace of Christianity and the home to a number of Eastern Churches with millions of followers. This book provides a comprehensive survey of the various denominations in the modern Middle East and will be of interest to a wide variety of scholars and students studying theology, history and politics.
The Church in Post-Communist Europe (Distinguished Lectures / Patriarch Athenagoras Orthodox Inst)
by Chrestos Giannaras
Nichols identifies a number of dogmatic issues, problems or ideas raised or discussed by Eastern Orthodox theologians. But issues of equal importance to Catholic theology as well.
The Daughter of Jorio; A Pastoral Tragedy
by Gabriele D'Annunzio, Charlotte Endymion Porter, and Pietro Isola
Poet and literature professor Scott Cairns ran headlong into his midlife crisis - a fairly common experience among men nearing the age of fifty-while walking on the beach with his Labrador. His was not a desperate attempt to recapture youth, filled with sports cars and younger women. Instead, Cairns realized his spiritual life was advancing at a snail's pace and time was running out. Midlife crisis for this this Baptist turned Eastern Orthodox manifested as a desperate need to seek out prayer....
Ideas in Motion in Baghdad and Beyond (Islamic History and Civilization, #124)
This volume contains a collection of articles focusing on the philosophical and theological exchanges between Muslim and Christian intellectuals living in Baghdad during the classical period of Islamic history, when this city was a vibrant center of philosophical, scientific, and literary activity. The philosophical accomplishments and contribution of Christians writing in Arabic and Syriac represent a crucial component of Islamic society during this period, but they have typically been studied...
Colonizing Christianity (Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought)
by George E. Demacopoulos
Colonizing Christianity employs postcolonial critique to analyze the transformations of Greek and Latin religious identity in the wake of the Fourth Crusade. Through close readings of texts from the period of Latin occupation, this book argues that the experience of colonization splintered the Greek community over how best to respond to the Latin other while illuminating the mechanisms by which Western Christians authorized and exploited the Christian East. The experience of colonial subjugation...
This is the story of one man's religious search which led him to the Eastern Orthodox Church, after years of unease at traditional ways of worship in Britain. From a childhood in Cornwall to a career as an officer in the Irish Guards, he finally found peace in a Greek Orthodox monastery. There he found that for the first time he was able to worship in a way that allowed him to love God with all his heart, soul, body and mind.
Collected Works of Meletij Smotryc'kyi (Harvard Lib of Early Ukrainian Literature - Texts (HUP))
by M Smotryc'kyj and Meletij Smotryc'kyi
Meletij Smotryc'kyj (ca. 1577-1633), a man of great learning and wide cultural horizons, was one of the outstanding figures of the cultural revival in the Ukrainian and Belorussian lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. First as a staunch advocate of Orthodoxy and then after 1627 as an equally ardent defender of the Uniates, Smotryc'kyj wrote numerous polemical, homiletic, philological, and theological works that well illustrate the com...
The Spell of the Logos (Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies, #10)
by Mihai Niculescu
Origen's construal of the Bible as a textual incarnation of the Word encourages an assimilationist interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures as a proto-Christian gospel. Although in partial agreement with this thesis, this study suggests a non-assimilationist reading of Origen's biblical exegesis.
Das Register Des Patriarchats Von Konstantinopel (Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae, #19)