Learn about the legacy of the Russian Empire's activities in the Near East in the century before World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution, motivated by feelings of kinship between Orthodox communities as an aid to understanding today's geopolitical situation.

In this concise volume, Bishop Irenei renews his exploration of the patristic genre of centuries — 100 short paragraphs that can be read individually but are connected by a common theme. Here, His Grace offers five centuries that impart eternal truths expressed by the Holy Fathers on Love, on the Church, and more.

A timely explication of the Orthodox understanding of theology, contrasted to common usage in academia.In a globalized world where all borders have been abolished and  identities are blurred, it constitutes a precious guide for a return to the sources of Orthodox theology in its forms and contents.

A compelling account of the lives and service in North America of some of the leading figures of the Orthodox Church in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A spiritual manual that will inspire and encourage its readers own struggle for the attainment of holiness and the emulation of the deeds that adorns the lives recounted here.

This comprehensive work represents a complete but accessible survey of everything related to the Orthodox Church's divine services and is helpfully illustrated throughout.

This modest work is grounded in the mission of the Church in the present world, both on an understanding of God as Trinity and in her mission to baptize diverse cultures. These specific proposals serve as a springboard for further dialogue as the Orthodox world seeks to apply these principles in all nations and political circumstances.

In this third volume of St Ignatius’s collected works, published here in English for the first time, the saint examines the mystical boundaries that govern the life of a Christian: the one, between life and death; and the other, between the visible, physical realm and the invisible to most, but no less real, spiritual realm. 

This sharply honed and well-constructed work will engage all who encounter the story of the sinful woman (Lk. 7: 36-50) with the living tradition of worship and scriptural interpretation in the Orthodox Church.

In this text, noted theologian and scholar Jean-Claude Larchet finds the roots of the global ecological crisis in a rejection of a truly Christian cosmology and proposes principles and actions deeply rooted in his Christian ethos that would allow mankind to restore and reinvigorate its relationship with nature.

The full text in Church Slavonic of the liturgical service of the Canon of St. Andrew of Crete as used during the first four days of Great Lent and on the Thursday of the Fifth week.

This is the first detailed history of the Russian presence on the Holy Mountain of Athos that traces it back over one thousand years. It will be invaluable to both historians and the general educated reader. The text is complemented by a timeline, glossary, comprehensive bibliography, index, full-color illustrations and photographs.

In this short but incisive treatise, formerly published as On the Law of God, the reader is guided on a spiritual journey that begins with the awakening of conscience and the realization of the presence of both sin and virtue in the world, culminating in a union with God: that is “a living, personal relationship with the one we love.”

This second edition replaces ISBN: 9780884651192.  It uses the traditional English translation of Kallsitos Ware and Motehr Mary. It is theclassic canon of repentance, chanted in during Lent and includes the Life of Mary of Egypt.