Orthodox

With approximately 200 to 300 million adherents worldwide, Orthodox Christianity is among the largest branches of Christianity, yet it remains relatively understudied. This book examines the rich and complex entanglements between Orthodox Christianity...

The relationship between tradition and innovation in Orthodox Christianity has often been problematic, filled with tensions and contradictions starting from the Byzantine era and running through the 19th and 20th centuries. For a long period of time...

Like many Americans, the Eastern Orthodox converts in this study are participants in what scholars today refer to as the /u201cspiritual marketplace/u201d or quest culture of expanding religious diversity and individual choice- making that marks the...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew speaks to a contemporary world about, human rights, religious tolerance, international peace, environmental protection, and more. In the World, Yet Not of the World represents a selection of major addresses and...

Western European Christendom finds it difficult to comprehend the Eastern Orthodox Church because it knows little about the practice and doctrines of Orthodoxy. Even what is known is overlaid by many strata of prejudices and misunderstandings, partly...

This book considers a movement within Russian religious philosophy known as "full unity" (vseedinstvo), with a focus on one of its main representatives, Pavel Florensky (1882-1937). Often referred to as "the Russian Leonardo," Florensky was an important...

Christos Yannaras is one of the most significant Orthodox theologians of recent times. The work of Yannaras is virtually synonymous with a turn or renaissance of Orthodox philosophy and theology, initially within Greece, but as the present volume...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881416152Author Fr Joseph David HuneycuttImprint St Vladimir's Seminary Press,U.S.Publisher St Vladimir's Seminary Press,U.S.

For centuries, Catholics in the Western world and the Orthodox in Russia have venerated certain saints as martyrs. In many cases, both churches recognize as martyrs the same individuals who gave their lives for Jesus Christ. On the surface, it appears...

The Great Canon has been described as one of the jewels of Orthodoxy's ascetic spirituality. In the first week of Lent, during Great Compline, it is sung and declaimed in portions; on Thursday of the fifth week, during Matins, in its entirety...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888212716Author David SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Conciliar PressPublisher Conciliar Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557258748Author Andreas AndreopoulosFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete PressWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612611648Author Vassilios PapavassiliouFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete PressWeight(grams) 221g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592448111Author E. B. PuseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 239gDimensions(mm)...

In the last decade, Eastern Orthodoxy has moved from being virtually unknown to Western Christians to being a significant presence on the religious scene in North America and Great Britain. In light of Orthodoxy's growing presence, this book will...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944967000Author Elissa D BjeletichFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Ancient Faith PublishingPublisher Ancient Faith PublishingWeight(grams)...

A vivid, artfully crafted, and deeply hopeful account of one community’s struggle to rediscover and reinvent itself after a century of genocidal loss, dispossession, and displacement. To the extent that Middle Eastern Christians register in Euro-American...

A vivid, artfully crafted, and deeply hopeful account of one community’s struggle to rediscover and reinvent itself after a century of genocidal loss, dispossession, and displacement. To the extent that Middle Eastern Christians register in Euro-American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783643803436Author Christine ChaillotFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Lit VerlagPublisher Lit Verlag

An exploration of how contemporary Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity preserves and protects sacred ideas and relationships. “Ethiopia stretches her hand upon God,” the narrative of Sheba and Solomon, the material presence of the Ark of the Covenant in...

How is our Christian faith properly lived? Is Christianity a series of abstract teachings to which we, as individuals, give our mental or emotional assent? Or, as Russian Archbishop and New Martyr Ilarion (Troitsky) argues, is the true aim of Christian...

An exploration of how contemporary Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity preserves and protects sacred ideas and relationships. “Ethiopia stretches her hand upon God,” the narrative of Sheba and Solomon, the material presence of the Ark of the Covenant in...

A study of twenty hymns from the collection of liturgical hymns known as the "Book of Warda" - hymns attributed to a poet from the thirteenth century named Giwargis Warda. The hymns of this book are chanted during the liturgy of the Assyrian Church of...

Over the last hundred years, the Eastern Orthodox Church has been rediscovering Her western heritage, spurred on by large migrations from traditionally Orthodox countries to regions divided from the Church since the Great Schism. One key to this...