Essays exploring the Orthodox understanding of Tradition and its relevance to our modern world in such crucial areas as authority, mission and social responsibility.
These essays on various historical and theological issues discuss aspects of the estrangement between the two halves of the Christian world and present an evaluation of attempts at healing the schism.
This book reflects Father Meyendorff's fundamental convictions concerning: 1) Orthodox participation in ecumenical dialogue, 2) the Church's responsibilities in education and mission, and 3) spiritual developments in Russia.
Fr Meyendorff illustrates the Orthodox appreciation of marriage as "sacrament, " not just another institution of this world. He stresses that marriage is a mystery, an earthly and eternal bond presupposing that man is a citizen of God's Kingdom. Includes text of marriage service.
For over a thousand years, Eastern Christendom had as its center the second capital of the Roman Empire-Constantinople, the "New Rome, " or Byzantium. The geographical division between the Eastern and Western Churches was only one manifestation of deeper rifts, characterized by a long history of conflicts, suspicions, and misunderstandings. Although the art, monasticism, and spirituality of Byzantium have come to be recognized as inspirational...
Twenty essays by a diverse group of theologians, musicians, historians and musicologists, on the historical, theological, social and spiritual developments which brought Orthodoxy from Byzantium to the modern world.
The most in-depth and scholarly panorama of Western spirituality ever attempted!In one series, the original writings of the universally acknowledged teachers of the Catholic, Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Jewish, Islamic and Native American traditions have been critically selected, translated and introduced by internationally recognized scholars and spiritual leaders.The texts are first-rate, and the introductions are informative and reliable....
