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NEW EDITION. Larger size, printed in full color. From the Introduction: This book has been written for three purposes. First, to provide the Orthodox reader with a competent overview of the history of Protestantism and its major traditions, from its beginnings in the 16th century to the present day. This overview relies heavily upon the Reformer’s own words as well as the creeds of various Protestant faiths, in order to avoid misrepresentation and caricature. Second, to acquaint Orthodox and non-Orthodox readers with a narrative of the historical relations between the Orthodox East and the Protestant West. Finally, to provide a summary of Orthodox theological opinion on the tenets of Protestantism.
This book is a treasure trove of the distilled counsels of St. John Chrysostom distilled from his thorough knowledge of and love for the Holy Scriptures and his profound respect for and obedience to the mind of the Church concerning matters of great interest and importance to people of all ages and circumstances: virginity, chastity, celibacy, marriage, contraception, parenting, family life, sexual practices, divorce, remarriage, and widowhood.
You will find that this great fourth-century preacher and pastor of the Church still has an urgent (and salvific!) message to proclaim to people of the 21st-century and beyond the soul-profiting message of the beauty of consecrated virginity and the blessedness of marriage. I trust that after receiving his inspired counsel you will marvel at the beauty of the Scripture-based teachings so as to be lifted to the clouds in appreciation of and admiration for the God Who fashioned and sanctified both states for His glory. May it be so! - from the foreword by His Grace Basil, Bishop of Wichita and Mid-America, Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America
Saint John Chrysostom still speaks, today even louder than in the fourth century. Not all will wish to hear him, as not all wished to hear him then... But those who have humility will find in him an able instructor and will find a place of confidence in these confusing times. He radiates amidst the Holy Fathers of the Church as the great defender and sanctifier of the Christian home and city. Adherence to his teaching has produced innumerable saints in the Church, spiritually born both in the monastery and in the Christian home, and is capable of producing the same today - from the Afterword by Fr. Josiah Trenham
Patristic Nectar Publications is pleased to present this new pre-marital counseling theological workbook entitled Enduring Love: Laying Christian Foundations for Marriage. Marriage preparation, together with the sacred institution of marriage itself, has fallen on hard times in the culture of the post-Christian West. It is more important than ever for couples to saturate their hearts and minds with the glorious vision of holy matrimony presented by the Church in Holy Tradition and lived by countless married saints for the last two thousand years. Here in the pages of Enduring Love couples will find inspired teaching from the Holy Scriptures, the writings of the Holy Fathers, and the service texts of the sacrament itself, on how to live in a genuinely Christian marriage in which the home becomes a domestic church. Each of the ten chapters contains both a succinct theological teaching and a workbook section with questions for the couple to work through together in preparation for marriage. Through Enduring Love may God inspire the hearts of those preparing to be married, and also those already married who would like to deepen their union and render it more pleasing to God and to themselves.
St. Philaret of Moscow is the Russian Chrysostom. His mouth overflowed from a heart enlarged and illumined by the Holy Spirit, and his teaching has been a fountain of life to the Christian generations that have succeeded the great bishop.
Here, for the first time in an English-language translation, we have a thematic collection of his sermons dedicated to living the Christian life.
The master pedagogue covers numerous foundational spiritual realities including being born again, building a life upon the foundation of the fear of God, the centrality of gratitude, the cultivation of zeal, the purification of the heart, the nourishing of poverty of spirit, as well as more targeted subjects such as childbearing, work, preparations for prayer, and how to consecrate Sunday to God.
This audiobook contains a feast of faith and soul guidance that, if followed, will bring forth abundant spiritual treasure.
St. Philaret of Moscow is the Russian Chrysostom. His mouth overflowed from a heart enlarged and illumined by the Holy Spirit, and his teaching has been a fountain of life to the Christian generations that have succeeded the great bishop. Here, for the first time in an Engish-language translation, we have a thematic collection of his sermons dedicated to the Great Feasts of the Lord.
Against All Heresies answers more than thirty questions posed by a priest to his bishop. Written in the decades before the fall of Constantinople in 1453, it begins by asking how we can bring unbelievers to the true faith, strengthen the faith of our brethren, and tend to those who have questions about the different belief systems and heresies that fill our world. The dialogue, which touches on numerous problems that remain relevant today, provides detailed answers by the holy archbishop, Saint Symeon of Thessalonica, who was himself a successor of Saint Gregory Palamas and a forerunner of Saint Mark of Ephesus. In addition to treating the problems of atheism, superstition, and astrology, the dialogue deals with the ancient heresies that plagued the Church through the period of the seven ecumenical councils, as well as the claims and objections of more recent opponents, most notably the Bogomils, Muslims, and contemporary Roman Catholics. Presented in simpler and intelligible language, Against All Heresies is a profound and edifying catechism deeply rooted in Scripture and in the hesychast tradition of the Church.
Also included in this volume is a shorter treatise, Against the Latins, which summarizes the polemic against Roman Catholicism in the Late Byzantine period as well as a series of chapters On Prayer, a Philokalic meditation on the Jesus Prayer and the blessed practice that St. Symeon calls "the work of the angels."
An anthology of sermons on the Holy Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, taken from a 19th century multi-volume collection of St Philaret's homilies, and translated for the first time into the English language.
