Orthodox & Oriental Churches books

The tragic war in Syria along with the plight of the Christians there remains among the most misunderstood situations...  Read More >>

Continuing the epic of Christendom told in earlier volumes, The Age of Paradise and The Age of Division, the author...  Read More >>

Join Moscata, a friendly and informative dog, who leads readers through an Orthodox women's monastery. Enjoy the...  Read More >>

The Life and Death of Theodore of Stoudios collects three important works promoting the influential Constantinople...  Read More >>

Vladimir Nabokov complained about the number of Dostoevsky's characters ""sinning their way to Jesus."" In truth,...  Read More >>

""This book is an account of the life and work of the Russian novelist and political essayist Konstantin Nikolaevich...  Read More >>

An accessible and well organised synthesis of the ancient Christian understanding of death and the afterlife.  Read More >>

Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity fills a significant gap in the sociology of religious practice: Studies...  Read More >>

During the late Crusader period the Roman Catholic Church and the Armenian Apostolic Church attempted to establish...  Read More >>

"This is the fourth book in Met. Hilarion Alfeyev's series, ""Jesus Christ: His Life and Teaching,"" In this volume,...  Read More >>

Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity fills a significant gap in the sociology of religious practice: Studies...  Read More >>

The long memra translated here in this volume presents the seven parts of the homily on Creation in a single volume....  Read More >>

A calendar and liturgical guide to Orthodox Russian Sundays, feasts and lenten days.  Read More >>

Ecclesiastical History of the English People is a history of the Christian Churches in England, and of England generally....  Read More >>

The Martyrium Arethae and His Companions in Nagran (BHG 166) is one of the best known and most widespread texts...  Read More >>

"We read in the creation story that Adam and Eve ""heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the...  Read More >>

This study examines the historical development of the ROC’s arguments against modernization and analyzes which positions...  Read More >>

Located in the area of Wadi an-Natrun, southwest of the Nile Delta, Dayr as-Suryan (Arabic for 'Monastery of the...  Read More >>

Presents a rich and comprehensive history of Christianity’s flourishing. Philip Esler is ever careful to situate...  Read More >>

The ethnographic research into death rituals and food practices in the Polish-Belarusian borderland shows that the...  Read More >>

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"Is the difference of male and female to be """"completely shaken off"""" so that men and women are no longer men...  Read More >>

Infanticide. Holy war. Divine wrath. Violence in the Old Testament has long been a stumbling block for Christians...  Read More >>

The present study is an overview of the general development of the Syriac liturgical traditions until the end of...  Read More >>

A meticulous deconstruction of Maronite history writing and the ways in which Lebanese nationalist myths have been...  Read More >>