Book: The Soul's Longing: An Orthodox Christian Perspective on Biblical Interpretation Utilizing all that is valuable in historical-critical and related research, Dr. Mary Ford demonstrates with force and clarity just why biblical hermeneutics needs to return to the perspectives and methods of early Christian interpreters, particularly those of Eastern Church tradition. Since the late Middle Ages, biblical interpretation in Western Christianity has been largely guided by historical-critical methodology. Highly useful for questions of "Introduction" (the "who, what, when, where and why" of biblical writings), it has nevertheless led to a serious "reductionism," represented most flagrantly today by members of the "Jesus Seminar." The indispensable link between exegesis and spiritual life has been largely obscured, with the result that concern for the Gospel promise of salvation has been sub
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Book: The Truth of our Faith, by Elder Cleopa VOLUMES 1 AND 2 Discourses from Holy Scripture on the Tenets of Christian Orthodoxy
- Includes a short biography of the elder and a scriptural index
- Enriched with 29 photos & icons
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Book: The Truth: What Every Roman Catholic Should Know about the Orthodox Church Clark Carlton is the best selling author of THE FAITH and THE WAY, the most popular and widely used Orthodox catechism series in the English language. Mr. Carlton is an adjunct instructor of philosophy at Tennessee Technical University and holds a Master of Divinity degree from St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary as well as an MA in Early Christian Studies from Catholic University of America.
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Book: The Vision of God, by Vladimir Lossky Price includes shipping.
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Book: The Watchful Mind: Teachings on the Prayer of the Heart |
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Book: The Winter Pascha, by Fr Thomas Hopko Forty meditations for the season of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany by Fr. Thomas Hopko.
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Book: The World of the Desert Fathers A slim volume packed with ancient Christian wisdom.
These stories and sayings of the Desert Fathers, in a translation by Columba Stewart, give insights into a tradition where words have a resonance beyond their surface meaning. They are intended to lead the reader further along the way of Christ. Columba Stewart provides an introduction to each section to help us understand the world of the early monks.
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Book: The Year of Grace of the Lord The Author:"A Monk of the Eastern Church" is the well-known pseudonym for Father Lev Gillet (1893-1980), who authored numerous volumes of biblical and spiritual reflections. United to the Orthodox Church in 1928, Father Lev Gillet was deeply imbued with Eastern monastic spirituality. In 1948 he was appointed chaplain to the Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius, dedicated to the work of Christian unity.
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Book: These Things We Believe: The Orthodox Defense of Reasonable Christian Faith Has God become irrelevant for the 21st Century? Is there anything left to believe in?
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Book: These Truths We Hold Written by a monk of St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Monastery. These Truths We Hold is an extensive work, and is perhaps, one of the most complete English-language catechisms for those entering the Orthodox Faith or those who want to broaden their knowledge of what the Orthodox Church teaches. These Truths We Hold also makes a great group study book for the family or parish.
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Book: To Open One's Heart: A Spiritual Path There are many ways to open one’s heart. The heart is opened in those who love, and yet the heart is injured in those who sorrow. It is a deep well, and he who plumbs its depths can find spiritual wonders. The heart is the locus of the person— emotional, physical, and moral. But over and above all these dimensions, the heart is also the place of spiritual encounter with God.
Since God is constantly inviting each person to open his heart, he also wishes to heal those whose hearts have been bruised or injured by the hardships of life. Drawing freely from the writings of Scripture, the saints, and even Pascal, Michel Evdokimov offers an initiation into this spirituality of the heart born out of the traditions of Orthodox Christianity.
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Book: Touching Heaven: Discovering Orthodox Christianity on the Island of Valaam "Touching Heaven is a lovely book, quiet and contemplative, and full of peaceful revelations."
-Frederica Matthewes-Green
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Book: Treasure-house of Mysteries: Explorations of the Sacred Text through Poetry in the Syriac Tradition Translated by Sebastian Brock. Excellent translation of the poems of the early Syriac tradition which explore the deeper spiritual meanings of the biblical text with great insight.
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Book: Turning the Heart to God, by St. Theophan the Recluse This books is arguably the most profound work on repentance in all of Christendom. Repentance is not a popular term here in the West, yet it is the cornerstone of the Lord's Gospel, and the entrance into God's kingdom. Turning the Heart to God is a manual of true spiritual transformation in a world of often cheap grace...a classic book that has the power to change our lives, if we let it.
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Book: Way of the Ascetics, by Tito Colliander The Author: Tito Colliander was born in St Petersburg, Russia, but lived most of his life in Helsinki, Finland, where he was an Orthodox layman and the author of several books in both the religious and secular fields.
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Book: We Shall See Him As He Is, by Archimandrite Sophrony "Now at the close of my life I have decided to talk to my brethren of things I would not have ventured to utter earlier, counting it unseemly..." Thus wrote Archimandrite Sophrony, then ninety-two years old, in We Shall See Him As He Is, his spiritual autobiography. In this book, Fr. Sophrony, one of the most beloved Orthodox Christian elders of our times revealed to the world his own experience of union with God, and the path to that union.
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Book: When Hearts Become Flame, by Dcn. Stephen Muse Dr. Muse shares insight and wisdom gained over the course of his life's journey as a pastor and psychotherapist trying to follow the Light wherever He leads. Some profound and very useful insights are found within these pages.
— Dr. Albert Rossi, Psychologist, St. Vladimir's Seminary
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Book: Why Did She Cry? The Story of the Weeping Madonna |
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Book: Wise Lives Wise Lives: Orthodox Christian Reflections on the Wisdom of Sirach
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Book: Works on the Spirit - Athanasius the Great and Didymus the Blind The first great testament to the Spirit's divinity -showing how the Spirit creates and saves inseparably with the Father and the Son- is St. Athanasius' Letters to Serapion. Only a few years later, Didymus the Blind penned his own On the Holy Spirit, which is here translated into English for the first time. For Didymus, the Spirit transforms Christians by drawing them into the divine life itself, and must therefore be one with the Father and Son.
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