A classic introduction to the Orthodox Church written from within the context of the ecumenical community, addressing key doctrinal issues and providing a basis for Western Christians to understand their brothers and sisters in the Eastern Church.
Since its first publication thirty years ago, Timothy Ware’s book has become established throughout the English-speaking world as the standard introduction to the Orthodox Church.
This friendly guide provides a comprehensive introduction to Orthodoxy, but with a twist: readers learn by making a series of visits to a fictitious church, and get to know the faith as new Christians did for most of history, by immersion.
In this sweeping history, Alexander Kitroeff shows how the Greek Orthodox Church in America has functioned as much more than a religious institution, becoming the focal point in the lives of the country's million-plus Greek immigrants and ...
Recounts the history of Orthodox Christianity, and discusses Orthodox beliefs, practices, and forms of worship
An introduction to the life of the Orthodox Churches of the Christian East from 312 up to the year 2000.
This book includes a detailed 4,000-year chronology, illustrations, extensive bibliography, and an appendix listing the current canonical patriarchs and autocephalous churches.
The first comprehensive introduction to the Orthodox Church in the United States from 1794 to the present, this text offers a succinct overview of the Church's distinctive history and its particular perspectives on the Christian faith.
The book ends with a brief survey of the post-Communist era.
Environment? M. ost people, if they think anything at all of the Orthodox Church (for it has rightly been called one of the world's great secrets and is still profoundly unknown as far as the rest of Christianity is concerned), ...
Introducing the Orthodox Church: Its Faith and Life