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Welcome to the Lending Library of the Orthodox Christian Parish of St Barbara the Great Martyr, Chester, UK. Please feel free to browse our collection of books related to the Orthodox Faith and Life in Christ. To borrow a book, please follow these simple steps:

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A Concise History of Russian Art

Tamara Talbot Rice

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A Faith Fulfilled

Michael Harper

Michael Harper, well-known by many American Christians as a longtime leader in the evangelical and charismatic movements in the Church of England, now comes…

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A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament

Joseph Henry Thayer

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A Study In Survival

William C. Fletcher

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Al-Kitab Al-Muqaddas; Holy Bible (Arabic-English Bilingual Edition). Al-‘Ahad Al-Jadeed; New Testament

Logos Light

Al-Kitab al-Muqaddas (Holy Bible) brings together the World English Bible and Smith & Van Dyke Arabic translations into a Bilingual Edition of the New…

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An Englishman in the Court of the Tsar

Christine Benagh

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Periodicals & Journals

APOSTLE BARNABAS, the official periodical of the Church of Cyprus. (in Greek)

Bureau of the Academy of Athens.

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Armenia

David Marshall Lang

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Art and History of Jerusalem

Rita Bianucci

Discover Jerusalem’s rich history, monument and artwork with this beautiful volume. Its detailed texts and superb historical and artistic illustrations and maps provide an…

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Atlas of the Bible

Reader's Digest Editors

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Atlas of the World

"Reader's Digest Atlas of the World" will keep you up to date with our ever-changing world. Page after page of giant maps provide maximum…

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Bede

Bede

This is the first English translation of the Venerable Bede's commentary on the book of Genesis. Dealing as it does with the biblical account…

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Bede: Commentary on Revelation

The Commentary on Revelation is Bede's first venture into Biblical exegesis -- an ambitious choice for a young monastic scholar in a newly Christianized…

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Beyond the Shattered Image

John Chryssavgis

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Black Angels

Richard Marsh

Published to coincide with Christian Aid's focus on Ethiopia in 1998, this text celebrates the Christian heritage of Africa, and in particular the icongraphy…

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Blessed John, the wonderworker

Seraphim Rose

Blessed John (1896-1966) is believed by Orthodox Christians all over the world to be the holiest man of the 20th century. Manifesting many contrasting…

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Byzantine and early medieval painting

André Grabar, Manolis Chatzidakis

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Celtic Saints of Wales

Elisabeth Rees

Most books about Celtic saints are based on their legendary medieval lives. This book, however, focuses on the sites where these early Christians lived…

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Celtic Way of Prayer

Esther de Waal

To explore and recover the Celtic roots of Christianity is to reclaim a forgotten heritage, one that will deepen and enrich our vision of…

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Christ in Russia

Hélène Iswolsky

“Is all of Russia not in her church?” asked the great essayist, Rosanov. The question is likely to surprise many American Christians tempted, in…

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Christ is in Our Midst

Father John

Mankind has become so earthbound! People have quite forgotten that this life of ours is the path to eternity and a preparation for they…

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Christianity and Eros

Philip Sherrard

Essays on the theme of sexual love.In spite of the fact that marriage is recognized as a sacrament by the Church, the attitude of…

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Christianity in the Holy Land – Past and Present

Saul P. Colbi

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Churches of Attica

A. Kaloyeropoulou, C. Bouras, K. Andreadi

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Collins English Dictionary

This edition of the "Collins English Dictionary" has been fully revised to include thousands of the latest buzz and hi-tech words, as well as…

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Concise Bible Commentary

W.K. Lowther Clarke

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Contemporary Ascetics of Mount Athos, vol 1

Archimandrite Cherubim

Surrounded by the tranquil Mediterranean countryside of the Holy Mountain, the ascetics of Mount Athos struggle in “unseen warfare” to achieve a state of…

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Contemporary Ascetics of Mount Athos, vol 2

Archimandrite Cherubim

Surrounded by the tranquil Mediterranean countryside of the Holy Mountain, the ascetics of Mount Athos struggle in unseen warfare to achieve a state of…

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Counsels for Life

Epiphanios Theodoropoulos

Our Elder, the Archimandrite Father Epiphanios Theodoropoulos, wrote a brief, brilliant course in the firmament of the Orthodox Church and henceforth rests near Him…

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Cretan Cooking

Maria Psilakis, Nikos Psilakis

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Daily Vitamins for Spiritual Growth, vol. 2

Anthony Coniaris

Orthodox Christian readings for each day of the year.

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Dancing Alone

Frank Schaeffer

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Documents of the Christian Church

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Domesday

Michael Wood

In 1086 the Domesday Book, perhaps the most remarkable historical document in existence, was compiled. This tremendous survey of England and its people was…

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Early Christian Worship

Paul F. Bradshaw

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Elder Sebastian of Optina

Tatiana V. Torstensen

The spiritual image of Elder Sebastian (1884 1966) is that of a longsuffering, quiet bearer of the vision of the Optina monastic tradition destined…

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Essays on Orthodox Christian-Jewish Relations

George C. Papademetriou

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Everyday Life in Old Testament Times (Classic Reprint)

E. W. Heaton

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Experiences During the Divine Liturgy

Stephanos K. Anagnostopoul

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Face to Face with the Turin Shroud

Peter Jennings

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Festival Icons of the Christian Year

John Baggley

John Baggley. he beauty of Orthodox Christian icons is being appreciated more and more in the western world. But this beauty is not only…

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Freedom Bells

Alexander Cherney

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Gems from the Sunday Gospels in the Orthodox Church, vol. 1

Anthony M. Coniaris

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Gems from the Sunday Gospels in the Orthodox Church, vol. 2

Anthony M. Coniaris

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Gorbachev, Glasnost and the Gospel

Michael Bourdeaux

Based on research and visits to the Soviet Union and meetings with Gorbachev, Bourdeaux analyzes trends which are likely to ensure greater religious liberty…

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Greek Orthodox Faith in Poetry

Mary Ramos

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Guide to Ethiopia

Philip Briggs

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Herbs in Cooking

Maria Psilakis, Nikos Psilakis

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How to Read the New Testament

Etienne Charpentier

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How to Read the Old Testament

Etienne Charpentier

Bestselling illustrated guide to the books of the Old Testament which aims to familiarize the reader with the subject without overwhelming him/her with a…

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Icons

Richard Temple

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Ikons

John Stuart

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Imperial Unity and Christian Divisions

John Meyendorff

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In the Steps of the Anglo-Saxons

Leighton Houghton

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Introduction to liturgical theology

Alexander Schmemann

INTRODUCTION The Task and Method of Liturgical Theology The study of liturgics, understood as liturgical theology, has appeared comparatively recently ...

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Introduction to the Books of the Old Testament

Theodore H. Robinson, W. O. E. Oesterley

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Jerusalem

Andrew Sinclair

Andrew Sinclair details the struggle for the Holy City from its foundation to the modern era as he tells the fascinating story of the…

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Jesus Christ and the Temple

Georges A. Barrois

In the beginning, God spoke the Word; and God's Word was addressed to the Fathers of the Old Testament. In the fullness of time,…

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Josephus

William Whiston

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Journey

Peter France

In Spiritual Journey, Peter France looks at the various stages of his own spiritual odyssey and talks intimately of his long search for knowledge…

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Knowing Where We are Going

Alexandros Nikolaou Tsirintanēs

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Kyriakodromion

Apostolos Makrakis

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Life in Christ

Nicholas Cabasilas

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Life of St Columba

Adomnan Of Iona

Founding father of the famous monastery on the island of Iona, a site of pilgrimage ever since his death in 597, St Columba was…

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Lives of the Fathers

Frederic William Farrar

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Living Orthodoxy in the Modern World

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Living Prayer

Anthony Bloom

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Living the liturgy

Stanley S. Harakas

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Living Tradition

Meyendorff John

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Making God Real in the Orthodox Christian Home

Anthony M. Coniaris

Like the priest, parents represent God to their children. They are religious educators just by being parents. Here is a most valuable sourcebook filled…

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Maximus Confessor

George C. Berthold

This volume includes a translation of four spiritual treatises of Maximus the Confessor (c. 580-662), plus an account of his trial. Included are The…

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Monks of Mount Athos

Father M Basil Pennington

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Mother Maria

Sister Thekla provides an autobiographical introduction to this collection of Mother Maria's letters.

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New Testament Introduction

Donald Guthrie

Twenty years after its first release in one volume, Donald Guthrie has revised his widely acclaimed New Testament Introduction. A careful recasting of a…

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Nihilism

Eugene Rose, Seraphim Rose

In 1962, the young Eugene Rose undertook to write a monumental chronicle of the abandonment of Truth in the modern age. Of the hundreds…

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Old and New Athens

Demetrios Sicilianos

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On Pascha

Melito of Sardis

The Quartodecimans were early Christians who maintained the tradition derived from Judaism, and observed Pascha on the same occasion that the Jews observed Passover.…

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Orthodox Saints, vol. 3

George Poulos

Fr George Poulos presents a collection of almost five hundred saints in a series of four volumes. Drawing from early church history to later…

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Orthodoxy

Anthony Coniaris

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Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism

Methodios G. Phougias

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Oxford Dictionary of Saints

David Hugh Farmer

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Oxford Greek-English Learner’s Dictionary

A.S. Hornby, D.N. Stavropoulos

Provides information about the use of words as well as their meanings. There are numerous example sentences and phrases. It contains coverage of idioms…

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Redating Matthew, Mark and Luke

John Wenham

This groundbreaking study poses a solution to what one scholar has called one of the most difficult research problems in the history of ideas--the…

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Riding with the Lion

Kyriacos C. Markides

This work aims to recover the mystical heart of Christianity, confirming that there is a direct tradition of spiritual practices that the main stream…

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Russian Icons

Tamara Talbot Rice

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Saint Nektarios

Sotos Chondropoulos

St. Nektarios was born in Silyvria of Thrace in October 1, 1846 and gave up his soul to the Lord in November 8, 1920…

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Saints of the East

Donald Attwater

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School for Prayer

Anthony Bloom

A classic book on prayer, written out of the author's own deep spiritual life. It includes an interview with Metropolitan Anthony, who reveals details…

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Sergius Bulgakov

This anthology begins with Bulgakov's own ""Autobiographical Notes""--moving first-person accounts of his experiences. Then follow sections on economic ideals, religion, philosophy, and sociology. The…

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The Book of Kells

Bernard Meehan

"The Book of Kells" is a masterpiece of medieval art a brilliantly decorated version of the four Gospels with full-page depictions of Christ, the…

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The Byzantine saint

Sergei Hackel

St Vladimir's Seminary Press is pleased to present this collection, based on papers presented by a preeminent group of scholars at a Byzantine studies…

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The Celtic Way

Ian C. Bradley

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The Celtic Way of Prayer

Esther de Waal

While it may seem that everything that can be said about Celtic spirituality has been said, this outstanding book has already established itself as…

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The Christians

Whether he was God, or man, or myth, one thing is certain about Jesus Christ; no one has had a greater influence on human…

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church

E.A. Livingstone

Based on the highly acclaimed Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, this is an indispensable guide for both students and the general reader. This…

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The Early Christian Fathers

There is now a wide and growing appreciation of the value and relevance of the writings of the Fathers of the early Church, even…

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The Early Church

Henry Chadwick

Examines the beginning of the Christian movement during the first centuries CE, and the explosive force of its expansion throughout the Roman world.

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The First Advance

John Foster

This introduction to early Church history emphasizes people rather than policies or polemics, and shows Christians in the first five centuries persevering under persecution…

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The Gate of Heaven

Margaret Barker

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The Greeks

Peter Harold Paroulakis

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The Lament of Eve

Johanna Manley

This book offers a compunctionate Lament by our ancestress, Eve, directed to her progeny in her old age. The Lament is entirely based upon…

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The Lion concise handbook to the bible

David Alexander

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The Living God

Thomas C. Oden

A prominent scholar sets forth in plain, uncomplicated language the essence of two millennia of Christian thinking on the existence and nature of God,…

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The Living Witness of the Holy Mountain

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The Living World of the Old Testament

Bernhard W. Anderson

This well-known book is a vivid and engrossing account of the life story of ancient Israel from the time of the Exodus from Egypt…

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The Miracles of Exodus

Colin Humphreys

A Cambridge University scientist takes a fresh look at the Book of Exodus, revealing rational explanations for the Burning Bush, the location of the…

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The Monks of Mount Athos

Jacques Valentin

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The Most Beautiful Villages of Provence

Hugh Palmer, Michael Jacobs

From one of the most famous coastlines in the world, the Cote d'Azur, to the hills and mountains of the Luberon, the variety and…

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The Orthodox Church in Russia

Vivid photographs are combined with text to portray the history of the Russian Orthodox Church and examine its place in contemporary Soviet society

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The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church

The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, since its first appearance in 1957, has established itself as the indispensable one-volume reference work on all…

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The Russian Orthodox Church

Jane Ellis

The Russian Orthodox Church (1986) concentrates on the recent history of the church, examining the situation of Russian Orthodox believers in the Soviet Union.…

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The Russians and Their Church

Nicolas Zernov

For most people, the Russian Church, past and present, is one of the most enigmatic features of that paradoxical country. Yet a knowledge of…

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The Saints of Anglo-Saxon England, vol. 2

Vladimir Moss

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The Temple

Alfred Edersheim

This updated edition has been newly typeset in an easy-to-read, modern typeface. Now it is easier and more enjoyable than ever before to read,…

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The Treasury of Orthodox Hymnology, vol. 1

Savas J. Savas

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The Way of a Pilgrim and The Pilgrim Continues His Way

An essential addition to the HarperCollins Spiritual Classics series, The Way of a Pilgrim is combined in one volume with its companion work, The…

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The Year of the Grace of the Lord

Lev Gillet

On the basis of worship of the Orthodox Church, The Year of Grace of the Lord takes the reader through the Sundays and feast…

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These Are the Sacraments

Anthony Coniaris

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They Built on Rock

Diana Leatham

"They Built on Rock" tells the stories of the men and women who brought light and hope to the world of the Dark Ages.

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Three Treatises on the Divine Images

Saint John of Damascus

Is all Christian art fundamentally blasphemous? That was the question posed aggressively by the Christian iconoclasts of the eighth century in a bitter controversy.…

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Voyages of the Celtic Saints

Graham Panes

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Wisdom from Mount Athos

A. Sophuney, Siluan, Sofronii

Staretz, or &#34elder&#34, is a title given to Orthodox monks of particular spiritual development. Staretz Silouan was a Russian peasant whose only formal education…

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With the Russian Pilgrims to Jerusalem

Stephen Graham

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Women and the Priesthood

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Φιλοκαλία των Ιερών Νηπτικών

Τόμος 1ος

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Φιλοκαλία των Ιερών Νηπτικών, Τόμος 2ος

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Φιλοκαλία των Ιερών Νηπτικών, Τόμος 3ος

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Φιλοκαλία των Ιερών Νηπτικών, Τόμος 4ος

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Φιλοκαλία των Ιερών Νηπτικών, Τόμος 5ος

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