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For several decades, the two most controverted questions facing Christians have focused on sex and gender: female ordination and same-sex marriage. Much reflection on both of these questions has been done by Protestant and Roman Catholic, but relatively little by Eastern Orthodox theologians. This book seeks to fill the gap in Eastern Christian reflection by surveying what sources both ancient and modern have to say about human sexual differentiation. After carefully considering the hermeneutica...

This monograph traces how 'Jewish' elements were introduced into and disseminated throughout the Ethiopian Orthodox Tawahado Church through a series of multi-layered, socio-politico-cultural processes. Drawing on historical and literary evidence, Afework tracks the incorporation of Jewish features into the Ethiopian Orthodox Church from pre-Aksumite Christianity, before the fourth century, through the sixteenth century.

In seventeenth-century Europe the Copts, or the Egyptian members of the Church of Alexandria, were widely believed to hold the key to an ancient wisdom and an ancient theology. Their language was thought to lead to the deciphering of the hieroglyphs and their Church to retain traces of early Christian practices as well as early Egyptian customs. This book, the first full-length study of the subject, discusses the attempts of Catholic missionaries to force the Church of Alexandria into union with...

This study helps to provide an understanding of the Syrian Orthodox Church in the more recent past. In particular, it seeks to relate how that Church experienced contact with the Church of England.

English as an Additional Language is packed full of straightforward ideas to help teachers get a grip on good classroom practice and will help teachers:understand language development and its impact upon pupils attainmentuse the latest teaching strategies and interventions to help pupils access the curriculum and enjoy all aspects of school lifeanticipate problems for later-stage pupils and be ready to support their independencekeep up-to-date withthe DfES English as an Additional Language Strat...

al-Machriq was an Arabic-French periodical focused on Eastern Christian and Islamic topics in the Arab world. This Gorgias reprint will make widely available a rare resource for scholars of Eastern Christianity, Islam, and modern Arabic thought.

This liturgical guide offers detailed rubrics for every Sunday and major feast of the year, as well as certain lesser feasts and lenten days. The calendar also provides a list of commemorated saints and appointed scripture readings for each day of the year. Это Богослужебное руководство дает подробные указания на каждый воскресный день и великий праздник, в том числе и на особо чтимые постные дни и малые праздники. На каждый день года перечислены празднуемые святые и рядовые чтения Священного П...

How should Christians think about the relationship between the exercise of military power and the spread of Christianity? In Russian Orthodoxy and the Russo-Japanese War, Betsy Perabo looks at the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5 through the unique concept of an ‘interreligious war’ between Christian and Buddhist nations, focusing on the figure of Nikolai of Japan, the Russian leader of the Orthodox Church in Japan. Drawing extensively on Nikolai’s writings alongside other Russian-language sources,...

A stimulating interpretation of the history of Eastern Christianity, this book serves as a general introduction to the Orthodox Church and is widely read by Orthodox and non-Orthodox alike. As Schmemann himself said, This book is not a scholarly investigation into the history of the Orthodox Church nor a mere manual. It is a reflection on the long historical pilgrimage of Orthodoxy, an attempt to discern in our past that which is essential and permanent and that which is secondary, mere...