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 | The Disputation with Pyrrhus of our father among the saints Maximus the Confessor
By Joseph P. Farrell, D. Phil (Oxon).
Pat.044
This book contains a translation of the Christological debate between St. Maximus and Pyrrhus over whether our Lord had one will or two.
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 | On Marriage and Family Life
St. John Chrysostom
Pat.045
Christian tradition often seems to give only grudging approval to
the married life, particularly its sexual aspect. In these sermons of
St John Chrysostom we find an important corrective to this view.
Although himself a monk, Chrysostom had a profound understanding of the
needs of his congregation. Inspired by the epistles to the Corinthians
and Ephesians, he discusses their reasons God instituted marriage —
primarily to promote holiness of the husband and wife, and only
secondarily to produce children. Chrysostom goes on to discuss
sexual relations, the mutual responsibilities of marriage, and
parenting. While parts of Chrysostom's sermons may seem limited to his
own time, the vast majority of his advice has timeless relevance for
the Christian family.
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 | The Book of Pastoral Rule
St. Gregory the Great
Pat.046
Recognized as the most thorough pastoral treatise
of the patristic era, this sixth-century work by
St Gregory the Great carefully details the duties
and obligations of the clergy concerning the
spiritual formation of their flock.
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 | St. Cyril of Jerusalem- Lectures on the Christian Sacraments
St. Cyril of Jerusalem
Pat.048
These six Lectures on the Christian Sacraments were delivered in Jerusalem in the middle of the fourth century. They belong to a period of rapid transition for the Church. Less than forty years before, Christianity had been an illegal religion, the object of intense persecution. Now it was the favored religion of the state. Potential converts thronged the shining new basilicas, built through the beneficence of Constantine and his successors. Catechetical instruction was needed. It was provided by gifted preachers and teachers like St. Cyril of Jerusalem.
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 | On the Holy Spirit- St. Basil the Great
St. Vladimir's Seminary Press
Pat.049
St. Basil the Great wrote his treatise On the Holy Spirit during the closing phase of the trinitarian controversies of the fourth century. The Arians had previously denied the full divinity of the Son and the debate then turned to the Holy Spirit. In this work, without explicitly calling the Spirit "God", St. Basil demonstrates that He, like the Son, is of the same nature with the Father, and that equal honor and worship therefore are due Him.
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 | What God Has Done For Our Salvation- St. Nikodim of the Holy Mountain
Printshop of St. Job of Pochaev, Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville, NY
Pat.050
Venerable Nikodim of the Holy Mountain (1749-1808) is one of the most well- known Greek saints of recent times. Having received an excellent education he entered monasticism on the Holy Mountain, where he labored in asceticism for many years, fighting for the purity of Church tradition. In this book What God Has Done For Our Salvation is a collection of 19 short chapters
on various spiritual subjects such as, On the Greatness of the Divine Eucharist, The Denial of Peter, Our Sins and Ingratitude towards God, Striving for Pleasure, Weak Faith, Two Snares of the Devil, Our Love for God and much more.
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 | Selected Writings of St. John Cassian the Roman
St. Paisius Orthodox Women's Monastery
Pat.052
A collection of excerpts, taken from the writings of the St. John Cassian. Topics include
Perfection: The Theory of Spiritual Life, Some Enemies of the Spiritual
Life, Some Remedies for Sin, Penitence and the Hope of the Christian. The book also included a short biography. |
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 | The Fathers Speak- St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory Nazianzus, St. Gregory of Nyssa
by George A. Barrois
Pat.053
Here for the first time is an anthology of texts gathered almost
exclusively from the personal correspondence between St Basil the
Great, his close friend Gregory "the Theologian" and his younger
brother Gregory of Nyssa. These three men appear to us as real human
beings, reveal the substance of their Christian vocation, uncover the
program of their spiritual life, unveil the intellectual background of
their use of Greek philosophy at the service of Christian theology, and
explain the meaning of their ministry as monastic leaders and bishops
of the Church.
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 | The Lament of Eve
by Johanna Manley
Pat.054
If you learned to appreciate the Holy Fathers in The Bible and the Holy Fathers for Orthodox and in Grace for Grace: The Psalter and the Holy Fathers, you will want to read the Lament of Eve. This book offers a compunctionate Lament by our ancestress, Eve, directed to her progeny in her old age. The Lament is entirely based upon commentary by early Church Fathers on sections of the Book of Genesis, Chapters 1 through 5 (Septuagint).
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 | Song of Songs- St. Gregory of Nyssa
by Casimir McCambley OCSO
Pat.055
Commentary on the Song of Songs.
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 | On the Person of Christ
Translated by Kenneth P. Wesche
Pat.056
At the opening of the sixth century, large segments of the Roman
Empire had fallen to barbarian warlords. The Churches of Rome and
Constantinople were locked in a schism rooted in different attitudes
towards the decrees and definition of the Fourth Ecumenical Council
held at Chalcedon in 451. The emperor Justinian (527-565) dreamed of
reunifying and restoring the Empire, but to accomplish this he needed a
unified Church. Before Justinian ascended the throne the schism between
Rome and Constantinople had been healed, largely due to Justinian's
influence, but a significant segment of the Eastern population (called
"monophysites") would not accept the union and the imperial Church
remained divided. Hoping to facilitate his political aims for
unity, Justinian vigorously pursued a policy or reconciling the
monophysites to the Council of Chalcedon by sponsoring a theological
program to show to show that the language of Chalcedon's definition of
faith was faithful to the meaning, if not to the exact terminology of
Cyril's Christological formulas. The three documents translated in this
volume, "Against the Monophysites," "Concerning the Three Chapters,"
and On the True Faith," are significant imperial documents reflecting
the conclusion reached in that theological program. Although they
failed to convince the monophysites or reconcile them to the imperial
Church, they articulate the interpretation of Chalcedon's
Christological definition, upheld by Orthodox theologians even today,
and set the stage for the Christological definitions of the Fifth
Ecumenical Council. They serve as an important source for setting forth
fundamental philosophical principles underlying the Orthodox doctrine
concerning the Person of Jesus Christ.
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