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An Accidental Family
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Freeborn

ISBN 0192828363 (0-19-282836-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Set in the 1870s, a time of social disorder in Russia, An Accidental Family is the story of Arkady Dolgoruky, an awkward, illegitimate twenty-year-old on a desperate search for his family. This new translation of Dostoevsky's last completed novel fully captures the raciness and youthful vigor of the original text, and expresses "the innermost spiritual world of someone on the eve of manhood at that tumultuous time." [via]
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At the Corner of East and Now: A Modern Life in Ancient Christian Orthodoxy
by Frederica Mathewes-Green

ISBN 1585420441 (1-58542-044-1)
Softcover, Putnam Pub Group

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The wonderful title of this book gives a glimpse into its subject: a life at the crossroads of everyday life in America and the timeless rituals in a Christian Orthodox service. Full of information about this ancient church, Mathewes-Greene--author of Facing East and a columnist for Christianity Today--uses a style that is both quirky and intellectual, moving easily from the conversational ("this wasn't one of those woo-woo spiritual experiences where everything goes misty") to references to great Orthodox theologians and rich, distinguished prose. One example is her brief description of a young man she saw in California who believed he was Christ: "This is just someone's boy, someone's dreamer, who grabbed a sheet out of the linen closet and walked out of the suburbs, a nice young man breaking someone's heart, lost and gliding over the beautiful Santa Rosa Mountains in a private plane of bliss." While bearing the hallmarks of a fairly recent convert to the faith (some readers will have to adjust to her celebration of Eastern Orthodoxy at the expense of both Catholicism and Protestantism), the book makes a fine introduction to Orthodoxy for contemporary readers. --Doug Thorpe [via]
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- At the Corner of East and Now: A Modern Life in Ancient Christian Orthodoxy: ISBN 0874779871 (0-87477-987-1)
  Hardcover, J P Tarcher
- At the Corner of East and Now: A Modern Life in Ancient Christian Orthodoxy: ISBN 1585420441 (1-58542-044-1)
  Softcover, Putnam Pub Group
Becoming Orthodox: A Journey to the Ancient Christian Faith
by Peter E. Gillquist

ISBN 0962271330 (0-9622713-3-0)
Hardcover, Conciliar Press

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- Becoming Orthodox: A Journey to the Ancient Christian Faith: ISBN 0943497671 (0-943497-67-1)
  Softcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
- Becoming Orthodox : A Journey to the Ancient Christian Faith: ISBN 0962271330 (0-9622713-3-0)
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Beginning to Pray
by Anthony Bloom

ISBN 0809115093 (0-8091-1509-3)
Softcover, Paulist Pr

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"The realm of God is dangerous. You must enter into it and not seek information about it...The day when God is absent, when he is silent-that is the beginning of prayer". -- Archbishop Anthony Bloom
A remarkable book, written by a remarkable man. Archbishop Anthony Bloom -- French resistance fighter, army surgeon, Russian Orthodox monk -- gave the talks in this book to people who had never prayed before. This is the perfect place to start for someone who wishes to speak with God. [via]
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- Beginning to Pray: ISBN 0802725171 (0-8027-2517-1)
  Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Being As Communion: Studies in Personhood and the Church
by John Zizioulas

ISBN 0881410292 (0-88141-029-2)
Softcover, St Vladimirs Seminary Pr

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The voice of John Zizioulas may turn out to be the fresh voice for which theology and especially ecclesiology have long been waiting. In the context of a complete theology, which includes extended consideration of the major theological topics the Trinity, Christology, eschatology, ministry, and sacrament, but above all, the Eucharist the author propounds a fresh understanding, based on the early Fathers and the Orthodox tradition, of the concept of person, and so of the Church itself. His consideration of the local church as 'catholic' in the literal sense, and the need to understand the universal Church not as a superstructure but as the communion of all Churches, provides the program for the ecclesiology of the future. Yves Congar has written that he considers the author to be 'one of the most original and profound theologians of our epoch' and that he 'presents a penetrating and coherent reading of the tradition of the Greek ' [via]
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The Brothers Karamazov: Library Edition
by Fyodor Dostoevsky

ISBN 159308045X (1-59308-045-X)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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This is a translation of Dostoevsky's most widely read novel - at once a murder mystery, a mordant comedy of family intrigue, a pioneering work of psychological realism and an unblinking look into the abyss of human suffering. [via]
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Brothers Karamazov
by Richard Pevear, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Larissa Volokhonsky

ISBN 0679410031 (0-679-41003-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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Dostoevskys towering reputation as one of the handful of thinkers who forged the modern sensibility has sometimes obscured the purely novelistic virtuesbrilliant characterizations, flair for suspense and melodrama, instinctive theatricalitythat made his work so immensely popular in nineteenth-century Russia. The Brothers Karamazov, his last and greatest novel, published just before his death in 1881, chronicles the bitter love-hate struggle between the outsized Fyodor Karamazov and his three very different sons. It is above all the story of a murder, told with hair-raising intellectual clarity and a feeling for the human condition unsurpassed in world literature.

This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonskythe definitive version in Englishmagnificently captures the rich and subtle energies of Dostoevskys masterpiece. [via]
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The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts with Epilogue
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky

ISBN 0865474222 (0-86547-422-2)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux

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A masterpiece of world literature, in a bold new translation that makes no attempt to smooth out the rough diction, hesitations, or double-takes in the Russian--linguistic traits essential to the integrity and life of this text that is truer to the original than any other ever produced. [via]
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The Brothers Karamazov: Worlds of the Novel
by Robin Feuer Miller

ISBN 0805781188 (0-8057-8118-8)
Softcover, Gale / Cengage Learning

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Fyodor Dostoevsky completed his final novel The Brothers Karamazovin 1880. A work of universal appeal and significance, his exploration of good and evil immediately gained an international readership and today remains harrowingly alive in the face of our present day worries, paradoxes, and joys, observes Dostoevsky scholar Robin Feuer Miller. In this engaging and original book, she guides us through the complexities of Dostoevskys masterpiece, offering keen insights and a celebration of the authors unparalleled powers of imagination.

Millers critical companion to The Brothers Karamazov explores the novels structure, themes, characters, and artistic strategies while illuminating its myriad philosophical and narrative riddles. She discusses the historical significance of the book and its initial reception, and in a new preface discusses the latest scholarship on Dostoevsky and the novel that crowned his career.

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Byzantine Theology: Historical Trends and Doctrinal Themes
by John Meyendorff

ISBN 0823209679 (0-8232-0967-9)
Softcover, Fordham Univ Pr

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For over a thousand years, Eastern Christendom had as its center the second capital of the Roman Empire-Constantinople, the New Rome,or Byzantium. The geographical division between the Eastern and Western Churches was only one manifestation of deeper rifts, characterized by a long history of conflicts, suspicions, and misunderstandings. Although the art, monasticism, and spirituality of Byzantium have come to be recognized as inspirational and influential in the shaping of Eastern European civilization, and of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance as well, the West has been in the main ignorant of the historical evolution and the doctrinal significance of Byzantine theology.Here, for the first time in English, is presented a synthesis of Byzantine Christian thought. The reader is guided through its complexities to an understanding of Byzantium: its view of man and his destiny of deification; its ability to transcend the Western captivity; its survival under quite adverse historical circumstances. In the end, he may well find himself receptive to the basic positions of Byzantine thought, which have attained, in this time of need for the reintegration of Christianity itself, a surprising, contemporary relevance. [via]
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The Communion of Love
by Matthew the Poor

ISBN 0881410365 (0-88141-036-5)
Softcover, St Vladimirs Seminary Pr

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This collection of writings by Matthew the Poor focuses on the living Christ of history: His Nativity, Passion, Resurrection, Ascension, and relation to the Church and the Holy Spirit in dogmatic and ascetical theology. Revealing the essence of the Christian life in simple yet profound images, Matthew's discourses on humility, repentance, asceticism, fasting, suffering, and unity convey the Gospel message in powerful terms to modern man. [via]
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Counsels from the Holy Mountain: Selected from the Letters and Homilies of Elder
by Elder Ephraim

ISBN 0966700031 (0-9667000-3-1)
Softcover, St Anthonys Greek Orth Monastery

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A disciple of Elder Joseph the Hesychast, Elder Ephraim has, over the past couple of decades, ventured out from Mt. Athos to plant monastic communities in North America. We offer many books by and about the Desert Fathers, and truly their voices are living voices. But we would go a step further and say that their lives are not distant examples, but are immediately incarnate in the lives and writings of such as Elder Ephraim, who walks among us today. His counsels have a similar pristine and primitive urgency, compelling in their simplicity the way that the Scriptures are. We can and must read the Fathers, and the Philokalia and its offspring, but always remember that the practice of their precepts is the crucial thing. We have a contemporary example here in the life and writings of Elder Ephraim, his mentors and disciples. [via]
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- Counsels from the Holy Mountain: Selected from the Letters and Homilies of Elder: ISBN 0966700031 (0-9667000-3-1)
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Eastern Orthodox Christianity: A Western Perspective
by Daniel B. Clendenin

ISBN 0801026520 (0-8010-2652-0)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group

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In this reliable and engaging survey, Daniel Clendenin introduces Protestants to Eastern Orthodox history and theology with the hope that the two groups will come to see their traditions as complementary and learn to approach one another with a "hermeneutic of love" that fosters "mutual respect, toleration, and even support."
This revised edition includes a new preface, a new chapter, and an updated bibliography. In addition to updated demographic information, Clendenin examines at length a particular aspect of Orthodoxy's intersection with Protestantism-its growing exchange with evangelicalism. [via]
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- Eastern Orthodox Christianity: A Western Perspective: ISBN 0801025885 (0-8010-2588-5)
  Softcover, Baker Pub Group
- Eastern Orthodox Christianity: A Western Perspective: ISBN 0801026520 (0-8010-2652-0)
  Softcover, Baker Pub Group
Facing East: A Pilgrim's Journey into the Mysteries of Orthodoxy
by Frederica Mathewes-Green

ISBN 0060850000 (0-06-085000-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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  Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
- Facing East: A Pilgrim's Journey into the Mysteries of Orthodoxy: ISBN 0060850000 (0-06-085000-0)
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The Faith: Understanding Orthodox Christianity An Orthodox Catechism
by Clark Carlton

ISBN 0964914115 (0-9649141-1-5)
Softcover, Regina Orthodox Pr

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Father Arseny, 1893-1973: Prisoner, Priest and Spiritual Father
by Vera Bouteneff

ISBN 0881411809 (0-88141-180-9)
Softcover, Saint Vladimir's Seminary Press

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First Fruits of Prayer: A Forty Day Journey Through the Canon of St. Andrew
by Frederica Mathewes-Green

ISBN 1557254699 (1-55725-469-9)
Softcover, Paraclete Press, Incorporated

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Join Frederica Mathewes-Green on a guided retreatideal for the Lenten seasonthrough the classic Great Canon, a wise, ancient, Orthodox text that will enrich your experience of spirituality and prayer.
First Fruits of Prayer will bring readers of all denominational backgrounds into the prayer experience of first millennium Christianity through immersion in this fascinating text, a poetic hymn written in the eighth century. This extraordinarily beautiful work, still chanted by Eastern Christians every Lent, weaves together Old and New Testament scriptures with prayers of hope and repentance. It offers ancient ways of seeing Christ that will nevertheless feel new to most readers today.
This insightful book offers all readers an opportunity to walk through a classic text from the Christian East in a series of 40 prayerful readings, with accompanying commentary and questions for further reflection. [via]
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For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy
by Alexander Schmemann

ISBN 0913836087 (0-913836-08-7)
Softcover, St Vladimirs Seminary Pr

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In For the Life of the World Alexander Schmemann suggests an approach to the world and life within it, which stems from the liturgical experience of the Orthodox Church. He understands issues such as secularism and Christian culture from the perspective of the unbroken experience of the Church, as revealed and communicated in her worship, in her liturgy - the sacrament of the world, the sacrament of the Kingdom. [via]
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From the Holy Mountain: A Journey among the Christians of the Middle East
by William Dalrymple

ISBN 0805061770 (0-8050-6177-0)
Softcover, Owl Books

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In 587 AD, two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that would take them in an arc across the entire Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. On the way, John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist stayed in caves, monasteries, and remote hermitages, collecting the wisdom of the stylites and the desert fathers before their fragile world finally shattered under the great eruption of Islam. More than a thousand years later, using Moschos's writings as his guide, William Dalrymple sets off to retrace their footsteps.

Dalrymple's pilgrimage takes him through a bloody civil war in eastern Turkey, the ruins of Beirut, the vicious tensions of the West Bank, and a fundamentalist uprising in southern Egypt, and it becomes an elegy to the slowly dying civilization of Eastern Christianity and to the peoples that have kept its flame alive. From the Holy Mountain is a rich and gripping bl of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, threaded through with Dalrymple's unique sense of black comedy.
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The Historical Road of Eastern Orthodoxy
by Alexander Schmemann, Lydia Kesich

ISBN 0913836478 (0-913836-47-8)
Softcover, St Vladimirs Seminary Pr

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The Inner Kingdom: The Collected Works
by Kallistos Ware, of Diokleia Kallistos

ISBN 0881412090 (0-88141-209-0)
Softcover, St Vladimirs Seminary Pr

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This is a revised and expanded version of a book that has appeared in French, Italian, and Greek. It focuses on themes central to Eastern Christian worship and spiritual life and serves as an introduction to the series of six volumes of Bishop Kallistos' collected works. The opening chapter recounts the author's journey to Orthodoxy. The next two chapters provide profound and illuminating insights on death, bereavement and resurrection in Christ, and on repentance. Chapters four through seven invite us into the world of the desert ascetics and hesychast monks. Combining scholarly rigor with practical counsels on prayers, Bishop Kallistos makes the wealth of the Orthodox tradition accessible to today's Christians. The next three chapters concern personal vocation, martyrdom, spiritual guidance, and the strange path of the fool for Christ's sake. There follows a brief essay on time and eternity. The final chapter is a challenging discussion of Origen and Ss Gregory of Nyssa, Isaac the Syrian and Silouan the Athonite, and in conversation with them Bishop Kallistos asks, 'Dare we hope for the salvation of all?' [via]
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Introducing the Orthodox Church: Its Faith and Life
by Anthony M Coniaris

ISBN 0937032255 (0-937032-25-5)
Softcover, Light & Life Pub Co

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The Karamazov Brothers
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ignat Avsey

ISBN 0192835092 (0-19-283509-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons--the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosha--are all involved at some level. Brilliantly bound up with this psychological drama is Dostoevsky's intense and disturbing exploration of many deeply felt ideas about the existence of God, freedom of will, the collective nature of guilt, and the disastrous consequences of rationalism. Filled with eloquent voices, this new translation fully realizes the power and dramatic virtuosity of Dostoevsky's most brilliant work. [via]
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The Karamazov Brothers: A Novel in Four Parts With an Epilogue in Two Volumes
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Julius Katzer

ISBN 5050028051 (5-05-002805-1)
Hardcover, Raduga Publishers

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Los hermanos Karamazov / The Brothers Karamazov
by Fiodor M. Dostoievski, Juan Cano Ballesta

ISBN 8497930770 (84-9793-077-0)
Softcover, Debolsillo

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The Meaning of Icons
by Leonid Ouspensky, Vladimir Lossky

ISBN 091383677X (0-913836-77-X)
Hardcover, St Vladimirs Seminary Pr

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Includes 160 pages of text with drawings, 13 black and white and 51 full color plates. It is linen-cloth and paper bound.
In the last decades the art of icons has gained increased attention. Once icons were passed over by the art critics, or at most classified as popular art, although painters such as Matisse or Picasso went to Russia especially for the sake of studying this art. Most recently many books have been published on icon painting. Yet the present work is the first of its kind to give a reliable introduction into the spiritual background of this art.
The nature of the icon cannot be grasped by means of pure art criticism, nor by the adoption of a sentimental point of view. Its forms are based on the wisdom contained in the theological and liturgical writings of the Eastern Orthodox Church and are intimately bound up with the experience of contemplative life.
The introduction into the meaning and the language of the icons by Ouspensky imparts to us in an admirable way the spiritual conceptions of the Eastern Orthodox Church which are often so foreign to us, but without the knowledge of which we cannot possibly understand the world of the icon.
"It is not the purpose of the icon to touch its contemplator. Neither is it its purpose to recall one or the other human experience of natural life; it is meant to lead every human sentiment as well as reason and all other qualities of human nature on the way to illumination."
"The entire visible world as depicted in the icon is to foreshadow the coming Unity of the whole creation, of the Kingdom of the Holy Ghost."

The theological justification of the icon was derived by the Seventh Ecumenical Council from the fact of the Incarnation of God. God became human for the elation and deification of Man. This deification becomes visible in the saints. The Byzantine theologian often sets the calling of an icon painter on an equal level with that of a priest. Devoted to the service of a more sublime reality, he exercises his objective duty the same way as the liturgical priest. The "spiritual genuineness" of the icon, the cryptic, almost sacral power to convince, is not alone due to accurate observation of the iconographic canon, but also the ascetic fervor of the painter.
A very interesting section of the technique of icon painting is followed by the main part of the book, in which both authors describe the most important types of icons. Apart from a detailed description of the icon screen (iconostas) of the Russian Church, 58 types are explained with the aid of an equal number of illustrations, amongst which there are alone 10 various representatives of the virgin. Special mention is due to 51 icons reproduced in their complete colorful splendor.
The section of subjects made in order to reveal the main features of Orthodox iconography was naturally limited to the examples available outside of Russia. But this not in the least diminishes the value of the book; on the contrary, it led to the reproduction of many beautiful icons which had never been published before or had been unknown to wider public. A considerable number of museums and private collectors in Europe and America spontaneously placed their collections at the disposal of the authors. [via]
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Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church
by Vladimir Lossky

ISBN 0227679199 (0-227-67919-9)
Softcover, Clarke & Co Ltd

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In his classic exposition of the theology of the Church, Lossky states that the Eastern Tradition..."has never made a sharp distinction between mysticism and theology; between personal experience of the divine mysteries and the dogma affirmed bu the Church." The term "mystical theology" denotes that which is accessible yet inaccesible' those things inderstood yet surpassing all knowledge. [via]
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- The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church: ISBN 0913836311 (0-913836-31-1)
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The Open Door: Entering the Sanctuary of Icons and Prayer
by Frederica Mathewes-Green

ISBN 1557253412 (1-55725-341-2)
Hardcover, Paraclete Pr

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Orthodox Apologetic Theology
by I. M. Andreyev

ISBN 0938635484 (0-938635-48-4)
Softcover, Saint Herman Pr

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Christian Apologetics is quickly becoming a lost art. Especially lacking is the Christian's ability to present a cohesive integrated world-view, which inspires and moves the hearts of men. The many inroads against Christianity in our modern society are most often due to the inability of Christians to defend their faith through articulating the biblical and patristic Christian cosmology.
ORTHODOX APOLOGETIC THEOLOGY is a timely treasure. Through it, I. M. Andreyev clearly explains the function of Apologetics for the Christian faith. Then he sets forth the basic elements of patristic Christian cosmology. It is evident that Christ has transformed his own heart and that he speaks from his love for Truth.
ORTHODOX APOLOGETIC THEOLOGY enables one to bypass the desert of modern theological academia and drink deeply of that ancient Orthodox cosmology which has converted nations and inspired apostles, martyrs and saints. [via]
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The Orthodox Church
by Timothy Ware

ISBN 0140146563 (0-14-014656-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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This updated edition describes the history of the Eastern Church over the last two thousand years.
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Orthodox Theology: An Introduction
by Vladimir Lossky

ISBN 0913836435 (0-913836-43-5)
Softcover, St Vladimirs Seminary Pr

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The Orthodox Way
by Kallistos Ware

ISBN 0913836583 (0-913836-58-3)
Softcover, St Vladimirs Seminary Pr

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Orthodoxy
by G. K. Chesterton

ISBN 1406510025 (1-4065-1002-5)
Softcover, Dodo Pr

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If G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy: The Romance of Faith is, as he called it, a "slovenly autobiography," then we need more slobs in the world. This quirky, slender book describes how Chesterton came to view orthodox Catholic Christianity as the way to satisfy his personal emotional needs, in a way that would also allow him to live happily in society. Chesterton argues that people in western society need a life of "practical romance, the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure. We need so to view the world as to combine an idea of wonder and an idea of welcome." Drawing on such figures as Fra Angelico, George Bernard Shaw, and St. Paul to make his points, Chesterton argues that submission to ecclesiastical authority is the way to achieve a good and balanced life. The whole book is written in a style that is as majestic and down-to-earth as C.S. Lewis at his best. The final chapter, called "Authority and the Adventurer," is especially persuasive. It's hard to imagine a reader who will not close the book believing, at least for the moment, that the Church will make you free. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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ISBN 0977616746 (0-9776167-4-6)
Softcover, Strang Communications Co

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Orthodoxy: The Romance of Faith
by G. K. Chesterton

ISBN 1576466671 (1-57646-667-1)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub

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If G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy: The Romance of Faith is, as he called it, a "slovenly autobiography," then we need more slobs in the world. This quirky, slender book describes how Chesterton came to view orthodox Catholic Christianity as the way to satisfy his personal emotional needs, in a way that would also allow him to live happily in society. Chesterton argues that people in western society need a life of "practical romance, the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure. We need so to view the world as to combine an idea of wonder and an idea of welcome." Drawing on such figures as Fra Angelico, George Bernard Shaw, and St. Paul to make his points, Chesterton argues that submission to ecclesiastical authority is the way to achieve a good and balanced life. The whole book is written in a style that is as majestic and down-to-earth as C.S. Lewis at his best. The final chapter, called "Authority and the Adventurer," is especially persuasive. It's hard to imagine a reader who will not close the book believing, at least for the moment, that the Church will make you free. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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The Philokalia
by Philip Sherrard, Kallistos Ware, G.E.H. Palmer

ISBN 0571154662 (0-571-15466-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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The Philokalia is a collection of texts written between the fourth and the fifteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition. First published in Greek in 1782, then translated into Slavonic and later into Russian, The Philokalia has exercised an influence in the recent history of the Orthodox Church far greater than that of any book apart from the Bible. It is concerned with themes of universal importance: how man may develop his inner powers and awake from illusion; how he may overcome fragmentation and achieve spiritual wholeness; how he may attain the life of contemplative stillness and union with God.
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The Philokalia
by G.E.H. Palmer

ISBN 0571117279 (0-571-11727-9)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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Written between the 4th and 15th centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition, the texts published in 1782 as "The Philokalia" were later translated into Slavonic and then Russian. This final volume contains works by spiritual masters such as St Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022), Nikitas Stithatos (11th century), Theoliptos, Metropolitan of Philadelphia (c1250-1322), Nikiphoros the Monk (second half of the 13th century), St Gregory of Sinai (c1265-1346) and St Gregory Palamas (1296-1359). [via]
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The Philokalia: The Complete Text
by Philip Sherrard, Kallistos Ware, G.E.H. Palmer

ISBN 057119382X (0-571-19382-X)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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The Philokalia is a collection of texts written between the fourth and the fifteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition. First published in Greek in 1782, then translated into Slavonic and later into Russian, The Philokalia has exercised an influence in the recent history of the Orthodox Church far greater than that of any book apart from the Bible. It is concerned with themes of universal importance: how man may develop his inner powers and awake from illusion; how he may overcome fragmentation and achieve spiritual wholeness; how he may attain the life of contemplative stillness and union with God.

Compiled by Bishop Kallistos Ware

The fourth volume of The Philokalia

Volumes I through III are also available.
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The Philokalia: The Complete Text
by Nicodemus, Makarios

ISBN 0571130135 (0-571-13013-5)
Softcover, Faber & Faber

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The Spirit of Eastern Christendom
by Jaroslav Jan Pelikan

ISBN 0226653730 (0-226-65373-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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The line that separated Eastern Christendom from Western on the medieval map is similar to the "iron curtain" of recent times. Linguistic barriers, political divisions, and liturgical differences combined to isolate the two cultures from each other. Except for such episodes as the schism between East and West or the Crusades, the development of non-Western Christendom has been largely ignored by church historians. In The Spirit of Eastern Christendom, Jaroslav Pelikan explains the divisions between Eastern and Western Christendom, and identifies and describes the development of the distinctive forms taken by Christian doctrine in its Greek, Syriac, and early Slavic expression.

"It is a pleasure to salute this masterpiece of exposition. . . . The book flows like a great river, slipping easily past landscapes of the utmost diversitythe great Christological controversies of the seventh century, the debate on icons in the eighth and ninth, attitudes to Jews, to Muslims, to the dualistic heresies of the high Middle Ages, to the post-Reformation churches of Western Europe. . . . His book succeeds in being a study of the Eastern Christian religion as a whole."Peter Brown and Sabine MacCormack, New York Review of Books

"The second volume of Professor Pelikan's monumental work on The Christian Tradition is the most comprehensive historical treatment of Eastern Christian thought from 600 to 1700, written in recent years. . . . Pelikan's reinterpretation is a major scholarly and ecumenical event."John Meyendorff

"Displays the same mastery of ancient and modern theological literature, the same penetrating analytical clarity and balanced presentation of conflicting contentions, that made its predecessor such an intellectual treat."Virgina Quarterly Review

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Ultimate Things: An Orthodox Christian Perspective on the End Times
by Dennis Eugene Engleman

ISBN 096227139X (0-9622713-9-X)
Softcover, Conciliar Pr

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The Way of a Pilgrim
by Olga Savin

ISBN 0877736278 (0-87773-627-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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A new translation of the modern classic of pilgrimage and prayer, in a miniature edition. Recounted in this abridged version of the book are the anonymous pilgrim's experiences wandering with the "Jesus prayer" from shrine to shrine, across Russia and into Siberia. Two-color interior. [via]
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The Way of a Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Continues...
by R. M. French

ISBN 034528481X (0-345-28481-X)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

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The Way of a Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Continues His Way

ISBN 1880364123 (1-880364-12-3)
Softcover, New Sarov Pr

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Written in the 19th century by an anonymous Russian pilgrim and translated from the Russian by R.M. French, this little book has become a spiritual classic on the Jesus Prayer. Filled with insights on how to maintain a prayerful presence in the face of predicaments, adventures and calamities, it was preserved for posterity by the pilgrim's spiritual adviser, a wise old monk who recorded these tales of the pilgrim's dedicated life-style, and then began to pass the manuscript on to those who wanted to know why Jesus told his disciples to "pray without ceasing." This narrative about the wayfarer's longings to communicate with God is especially inspiring and apt for today's busy person who is looking for that quiet center of spiritual strength. [via]
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The Way of a Pilgrim: And the Pilgrim Continues His Way
by Helen Bacovcin

ISBN 0385468148 (0-385-46814-8)
Softcover, Doubleday

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This enduring work of Russian spirituality has charmed countless people with its tale of a nineteenth-century peasant's quest for the secret of prayer. Readers follow this anonymous pilgrim as he treks over the Steppes in search of the answer to the one compelling question: How does one pray constantly? Through his journeys, and under the tutelage of a spiritual father, he becomes gradually more open to the promptings of God, and sees joy and plenty wherever he goes. Ultimately, he discovers the different meanings and methods of prayer as he travels to his ultimate destination, Jerusalem.

The Way of a Pilgrim is a humble story ripe for renewed appreciation today. The recent changes in Russia have revealed the great religious traditions of that land, and this work, freshly translated for modern times, is among the finest examples of those centuries-old traditions. [via]
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The Way of a Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Continues His Way
by Olga Savin

ISBN 1570628076 (1-57062-807-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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The Way of a Pilgrim is a spiritual classic, but its origins are shrouded in mystery. It came to a remote monastery in Greece in the 19th century and was first published in 1884. Whether it is literal, fictitious, metaphorical, or pedagogical is unknown. The story follows an itinerant spiritual wanderer, all the time practicing Saint Paul's exhortation to "pray without ceasing." Specifically, the pilgrim repeats one prayer unceasingly, the Jesus prayer, until it becomes a sort of mantra. Through repetition of the prayer and encounters with his fellow inhabitants of 19th-century Russia and Siberia, the wanderer finds a spiritual enlightenment.
The Way of a Pilgrim is an oddity, but it can also be strikingly profound. In its sequel, A Pilgrim Continues His Way, the pilgrim engages an even richer dramatis personae in dialogues and spiritual lessons. Olga Savin's crisp, straightforward translation preserves the distinctive timelessness that makes the book great spiritual literature. This edition also includes three appendices that elaborate on the narrative's themes and a helpful glossary. --Eric de Place [via]
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Los Hermanos Karamasov/the Karamasov Brothers
by Fedor Dostoievski

ISBN 9871150075 (987-1150-07-5)
Softcover, Distal S R L

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Los hermanos Karamazov / The Brothers Karamazov
by Fiodor M. Dostoievski

ISBN 8437606381 (84-376-0638-1)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones

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Fiódor Dostoyevski es uno de los principales escritores de su época en la Rusia Zarista; la literatura de Dostoyevski explora la psicología humana en el complejo contexto político, social y espiritual de la sociedad rusa del siglo XIX. Walter Kaufmann citó las Memorias del subsuelo (1864), escritas con la amarga voz del anónimo «hombre subterráneo», como «la mejor obertura para el existencialismo jamás escrita». En el mismo sentido, el prestigioso intelectual y escritor austriaco Stefan Zweig consideró al escritor ruso como «el mejor conocedor del alma humana de todos los tiempos». Su obra, aunque escrita en el siglo XIX, refleja al hombre y la sociedad de hoy. Sigmund Freud dijo en su obra Dostoievski y el parricidio que el capítulo de «El gran inquisidor», de la novela Los hermanos Karamazov, era una de las cumbres de la literatura universal. Cabe resaltar, asimismo, la influencia ejercida sobre Nietzsche, quien afirmó: Dostoyevski, el único psicólogo, por cierto, del cual se podía aprender algo, es uno de los accidentes más felices de mi vida, más incluso que el descubrimiento de Stendhal. [via]
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