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The Orthodox Christian World (Routledge Worlds)

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Orthodox Christianity is the main historical inheritor of the Byzantine tradition of Christianity, and is still practised around the world. The two main strands are Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox, but there are thriving communities in countries are varied as Egypt (the Copts), Armenia, and Romania, with strong diasporic communities in Western Europe, North America, [...]

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The Profane, the Civil, & the Godly: The Reformation of Manners

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In this study of the sacred and profane in Puritan New England, the author seeks to understand not only the fears, aspirations and moral theories of Puritan reformers, but also the customs and attitudes they sought to transform. Topics include tavern mores, family order and witchcraft. The Profane, the Civil, & the Godly: The Reformation [...]

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Orthodox Worship: A Living Continuity With the Temple, The

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The Orthodox liturgy a living continuity with the worship of Judaism (temple and synagogue) and the Early Church. Written in a non-theological manner for the average lay person, this book offers inspired insights into the Orthodox liturgy. Early Christians preserved a continuity of worship from the Old Covenant to the New, employing elements from the [...]

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One Flew Over the Onion Dome: American Orthodox Converts,

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Converts to the Orthodox Church are sometimes stunned by the ethnic ghetto they seem to have landed in. Cradle Orthodox are no less amazed by these zealous, sometimes apparently nutty, converts. And priests seem to not have a clue as to how to deal the the mixed blessing of new comers. How on earth can [...]

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Scripture in Tradition: The Bible and Its Interpretation in The

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The Eastern Church Fathers stressed that the Bible is not sui generis but was born and shaped in a community of faith. They understood Scripture to be an essential element of Holy Tradition: the apostolic witness passed down and developed into the fundamental teachings of Orthodox Christianity. This book offers a fresh look at the [...]

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The Place of the Heart: An Introduction to Orthodox Spirituality

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Basic elements of spirituality, through the six basic elements : scripture; the Psalms and Gospels; primitive Christianity; hellenistic intellectual; primitive monastic; liturgical; and, contemplative. Guided along the road to silence, to meet the needs of modern man 'who is drowning in a sea of noise and meaningless clatter...' Included also is 'The Power of the [...]

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The Prison Epistles: Philippians, Ephesians, Colossians,

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From the depths of a Roman prison, words of encouragement and instruction from the great Apostle Paul were sent in a series of letters to communities throughout the Roman Empire. St. Paul may have been fettered and shackled to a series of Roman guards, but the Word he preached remained unfettered and free.This volume contains [...]

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The Saving Work of Christ: Sermons by Saint Gregory Palamas

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The Saving Work of Christ is the second volume in the series, Sermons by Saint Gregory Palamas, and covers all the major events in God's dispensation in the flesh, from the Birth of Christ to the Day of Pentecost. Tags: Religion Belief, work of christ, Religion and Spirituality, Gregory Palamas, saint gregory

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First and Second Corinthians, Straight From the Heart (Orthodox

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The community Paul founded in Corinth gave him both joy and grief, for he was to encounter problems there of disunity, sin, and arrogance - including a rejection by some of his own apostolic authority. His two epistles to the Corinthians came straight from the heart, as he appeals to them to live in peace, [...]

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On the Saints: Sermons by Saint Gregory Palamas

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On the Saints is the third volume in the series, Sermons by Saint Gregory Palamas, consisting of seven sermons devoted to the saints of the Old and New Testaments, and including St. Gregory's wonderful homily on his fellow patron saint of Thessalonica, the Great Martyr Demetrius the Myrrhstreamer (3rd century). Tags: Great martyr, st gregory, [...]

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Modern Scholarship in the Study of Torah (Orthodox Forum)

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_The principal thrust of this book is to challenge the compartmentalization to which we seem all too easily resigned, to discover whether, and to what extent, the methods of modern scholarship can become part and parcel of the study of Torah, conceived as a religious-intellectual way of life. Not 'Modern Scholarship and the Study of [...]

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The Orthodox Church (Denominations in America)

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The first comprehensive introduction to the Orthodox Church in the United States from 1794 to the present, this text offers a succinct overview of the Church's distinctive history and its particular perspectives on the Christian faith. FitzGerald examines the relationship between the Orthodox Church and other Christian churches in the U.S., as well as the [...]

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The Revival of Political Hesychasm in Contemporary Orthodox

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The Revival of Political Hesychasm in Contemporary Orthodox Thought focuses on the retrieval of the spiritual theology of the Orthodox Church and how it is being used in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries to develop a political ideology that allows for the creation of a unique Eastern Orthodox identity, which is against western [...]

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The Teachings of Modern Orthodox Christianity on Law, Politics,

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The Teachings of Modern Orthodox Christianity on Law, Politics, and Human Nature examines how modern Orthodox Christian thinkers have answered the most pressing political, legal, and ethical questions of our time. It discusses the enduring teachings of important Orthodox Christian intellectuals of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Leading contemporary scholars analyze these thinkers' views [...]

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Popes and Patriarchs: An Orthodox Perspective on Roman Catholic

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For any dialogue between the Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches to be fruitful, we must first understand our differences. Popes and Patriarchs covers some of the distinctives in theology and worldview that separate the churches of the East from those of the West, focusing primarily on the claims of papal supremacy. Author Michael Whelton, a [...]

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Thinking Through Faith: New Perspectives From Orthodox

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Within these pages a younger generation of Orthodox scholars in America takes up the perennial task of transmitting the meaning of Christianity to a particular time and culture. This collection of twelve essays, as the title Thinking Through Faith implies, is the result of six years of reflective conversation and collaboration regarding core beliefs of [...]

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