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The healing ministry of Jesus Christ is a primary task of the Church. This work describes the healing ministry of the Church as it is expressed in ...

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Popular Patristics Series Volume 60 St Gregory of Nyssa wrote the Catechetical Discourse as a handbook for his catechists, to help them defend and ...

This ultimately joyful work is one of the few books available in English to deal exclusively with the problem of despondency - acedia - and how it ...

Symeon the New Theologian was a 10th century Greek monk and ascetic writer. His Hymns are inspiring poetry of timeless value, which challenge the r...

Evagrius Ponticus (343-399 AD) spent sixteen years in the desert of Egypt, where he gained the gift of insight into the human soul. His writings i...

In the Orthodox Church St. Gregory of Nazianzus (ca. AD 329-390) is known as "the Theologian," a title he shares only with the Apostle and Evangeli...

St Isaac of Nineveh (7th c.), or Isaac the Syrian, is renowned for his spiritual writings. After only five months as bishop of Nineveh, he returned...

These six lectures on the Christian sacraments were delivered in Jerusalem in the fourth century. This was a time of rapid transition for the Churc...

You may hear my living voice through my letters" (Letter 8.11.b). In these letters—available in English in their entirety for the first time—St Joh...

Saint Basil of Caesarea (c. 329-378/9 CE) was a monk, bishop, preacher, theologian, and social activist who had very down-to-earth views about eati...

St. Basil's homilies on the subject of wealth and poverty, although delivered in the fourth century, remain utterly fresh and contemporary. Whether...

In his funeral oration for St. Basil, St. Gregory of Nazianzus calls him a "standard of virtue," a "noble champion of the truth," and a "second Jos...

When I first opened his De Incarnatione I soon discovered I was reading a masterpiece ... for only a master mind could have written so deeply on a ...

This is the second edition of this Popular Patristics volume, enhanced with freshly edited text, an updated cover, and a new foreword by Hank Haneg...

This important work features three seminal texts which provide insight into one of the most venerated saints of the Coptic Church and into the life...

Recognized as the most thorough pastoral treatise of the patristic era, this sixth-century work by St Gregory the Great carefully details the dutie...

The homilies collected here were delivered, and worked over, during the last decade at the Three Hierarchs’ Chapel of St Vladimir’s Seminary. These...

In these previously unpublished talks, Fr Alexander Schmemann critiques contemporary culture's distorted understanding of death. He then examines ...

This dynamic, challenging, and transforming vision of Christian theology, presented in a systematic manner, invites readers to approach the mystery...

Man is to accomplish in knowledge and love that to which all creatures strive unconsciously, instinctively and without unity. It is sometimes the c...

God formed the human body from the dust of the earth in his image and likeness (Gen 1.26; 2.7), and calls us to become “partakers of the divine nat...

This important and compelling work features twelve sermons on the Mother of God eighth-century preachers John of Damascus, Germanos of Constantinop...

In the second half of the fourth century the mystery of the Holy Spirit was the subject of fierce debate. Those who fought against the Nicene Creed...