Writings

GROUPS

·         Early Christian Writings(loads, and you can purchase the CD HERE and support Peter Kirby)

·         e-catena (Gospel Commentary, from the above mentioned Peter Kirby)

·         Orthodoxy and Islam (link not working presently)

·         Unpublished Academic Literature from Aristotle University

·         Migne's Patrologia Graecae, Patrologia Latina (photo reprints)

·         "Morals on the Book of Job" by St. Gregory the Great (thank-you digitizer!!!)

 

Collected Quotes

• A blog of quotes

 

INDIVIDUALS

A

• Alexandra, Mother (formerly Her Royal Highness, Ileana, Princess of Romania) – On Humility

  • Introduction to the Jesus Prayer
  
  
•  Alfeyev, Bishop Hilarion

  • Orthodox Theology on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century

  • Orthodox Worship as a School of Theology
  • Prayer in St. Isaac of Nineveh

• Ambrose of Optina, St. – Concerning Progress

• Anatoly (the Younger) of Optina, St. – Prayer for the Orthodox Christians of the Latter Times

  • Instructions to the Faithful

• Andreyev, Ivan – The Catacomb Church in the Soviet Union

• Anatoly of Optina, Holy Great Elder and New Martyr – Instructions to the Faithful

   
  

• Averky, Archbishop - On The Russian Church Abroad

  • On The Position Of The Orthodox Christian In The Contemporary World
  • Cross of the True Christian
  • Who Has Ears to Hear, Let Him Hear
  • Sermon on the Sunday of Orthodoxy, 1971
  • On Apostasy
  • The Modern World
  • On the Church
  • On Prayer, Fasting and Bearing the Cross
  • True Orthodoxy
  • On the Causes of the Russian Catastrophe
  • For There Must Be Also Heresies Among You
  • On Monarchy
  • On the Temple
  • On the Apostolic Work of Prince St. Vladimir
  • What is Orthodoxy?
  • True Orthodoxy

B

• Bloom, Met. Anthony – The Jesus Prayer

  
  
• Bradshaw, David Essays and "Aristotle East and West" (full text)

C

• Cleopa, Elder – On Holy Scripture
  
• Constantine, Fr. Theophanes - The Psychological Basis of Mental Prayer in the Heart (pt. I)
• Constantine, Fr. Theophanes - "The Orthodox Doctrine of the Person"(pt. II)
• Constantine, Fr. Theophanes - "The Evagrian Ascetical System" (pt. III)
• Constantine, Fr. Theophanes - "Hesychian Sobriety" (pt. IV)

D

• Dragas, Fr. George – The Manner of Reception of Roman Catholic Converts into the Orthodox Church

E

F

• Florovsky, Fr. Georges
  
• • Vol. I: Bible, Church, Tradition: An Eastern Orthodox View
  • Ch. 1 – The Lost Scriptural Mind
  • Ch. 2 – Revelation and Interpretation
  • Ch. 3 – The Catholicity of the Church
  • Ch. 4 – The Church: Her Nature and Task
  • Ch. 5 – The Function of Tradition in the Ancient Church
  • Ch. 6 – The Authority of the Ancient Councils and the Tradition of the Fathers
  • Ch. 7 – St. Gregory Palamas and the Tradition of the Fathers

   

  Vol. III: Creation and Redemtion

  • Ch. 1 – The Valley of the Shadow of Death
  • Ch. 2 – Revelation, Philosophy and Theology
  • Ch. 3 – Creation and Creaturehood
  • Ch. 4 – The Darkeness of Night
  • Ch. 5 - Redemption
  • Ch. 6a – Dimensions of Redemption - Cur Deus Homo? The Motive of the Incarnation
  • Ch. 6b – Dimensions of Redemption - The Ever-Virgin Mother of God
  • Ch. 6c – Dimensions of Redemption - The Sacrament of Pentecost
  • Ch. 6d – Dimensions of Redemption - On the Veneration of the Saints
  • Ch. 6e – Dimensions of Redemption - Holy Icons
  • Ch. 6f – Dimensions of Redemption - The “Immorality” of the Soul
  • Ch. 7 – Eschatology – Last Things and Events

   

  Vol. IV: Aspects of Church History

  • The Fathers of the Church and the Old Testament

   

  Vol. VI – Ways of Russian Theology

  • Preface, Note, Preface
  • Ch. 1 – The Crisis of Russian Byzantinism (Notes here)
  • Ch. 2 – Encounter With the West (Notes here)
  • Ch. 3 – The Contradictions of the Seventeenth Century (Notes here)
  • Ch. 4 – The St. Petersburg Revolution (Notes here)
  • Ch. 5 – The Struggle for Theology (Notes here)

   

  Vol. X: The Byzantine Ascetic and Spiritual Fathers

  • Ch. 1 – The Ascetic Ideal and the New Testament: Reflections on the Critique of the Theology of the Reformation

   

  Article – Limits of the Church

  Homilies – The Ascension of Our Lord

G

• Golitzin, Hieromonk Alexander - His site HERE and a short blog bio HERE
  
  

H

• Hierotheos, Metropolitan

I

• Isaac the Syrian, St.
  

K

• Khomiakov, Alexei - The Church is One

• Khomiakov, Alexei – On the Western Confessions of Faith

• Kontoglou, Photios

• Khrapovitsky, Met. Anthony – What Is the Difference Between Orthodoxy and Western Confessions?

  • A Short Biography of Met. Anthony Khrapovitsky
  • The Basis on Which Economy May be used in the Reception of Converts
  • The Church’s Teaching About the Holy Spirit – Part I,  Part II
  • The Kiss of Judas
  • A Letter to A Priest About Prayer
  • The Moral Aspect of the Dogma of the Church – Part I,  Part II
  • On Patriarch Nikon – Part I,  Part II
  • The Lazarus of the Parable and Lazarus Who was Four Days in the Tomb
  • More Particular Definition of the Church
  • Paschal Epistle - 1930
  • The Spiritual Gifts of Youth
  • Theses
  • Sermon on the Nativity of Christ - 1906
  • The First Ecumenical Council
   
  

  Krondstadt, St. John of – Are We Seeking Christ?

  
  
  • The Mystery of Loving-Kindess – A Sermon on the Nativity of Christ
  • On the Joy of Being Orthodox – The Sunday of Orthodoxy
  • Homily for the Feast of St. Archangel Michael

L

• Laurus, Met. Of Eastern America and New York – The Ascetic Podvig of Living in the World

  
  
• Lossky,Vladimir

M

• Maximovitch ( see "on-line books", "Russian")

• Meyendorff, Fr. John – Theology in the Thirteenth Century – Methodological Contrasts

• Mileat, Bishop Alexander's Booklets, many
• Moss, Vladimir - Christian Power in the Age of Reason

N

• Nilus the Myrhh Streaming, St. – The Final Days

• Nilus, Sergei – It is Near, Even at the Doors

O

P

• Palamas, St. Gregory – A Collection of Spiritual Thoughts

  • A Homily on the Dormition of Our Supremely Pure Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary
  • On the Publican and the Pharisee
  • 170 Texts on Saintly Life (partial work)
  • On Prayer and Purity of the Heart: Three Chapters
  • How All Christians In General Must Pray Without Ceasing
•     -On Unceasing Prayer
•     -writings, including his "Works" in Greek (vol. I)
• Possidius', "Life of Augustine"

S

• Schmemann, Protopresbyter Alexander – The Pre-Constantinian Origins of the Church Year

  • On “Keeping Orthodoxy Pure” (Journal entry)
  • Concerning Women’s Ordination (A Letter to an Episocpal friend)
  • Eucharist and Theology
  • “The Sacrament of the Word” Ch. 4 of The Eucharist
  • The Origins of Worship on Sunday: The Mystery of the Eighth Day
  • The Origins of Christian Worship: The Problem of the Origin of the Ordo (ie. of the Church’s Liturgical typicon)
  • Preface to the 1982 edition of Women and the Priesthood
  
  
• Sophrony, Archimandrite (Index of various languages)

  T

• Troitsky, New Martyr Archbishop - Christianity or the Church?
  

W

• Whiteford, Fr. John - Sola Scriptura: In the Vanity of their Minds

Y

Yannaras, Christos – On the Notions of Essence, Hypostasis, Person and Energy in Orthodox Thought

• The Environmental Issue: An Existential not a Canonical Problem
• Theotokos
• Man
• Jesus Christ
• Person and Individual
• The Asceticism of the Church and Individual Virtue
• Pietism as an Ecclesiological Heresy
• The Church Canons and the Limits Set to Life
• The Historical and Social Dimensions of the Church’s Ethos
• The Ethos of Liturgical Art
• Towards a New Ecumenism
• Orthodoxy and the West
• A Note on Political Theology
• Human rights and the Orthodox Church

Z

• Zizioulas, Fr. "Dogmatics"

• Zizaoulas, Met. John – Communion and Otherness

OTHER

• Various Writings - Fr. M. Azkoul, Patr. Bartholomew, St. Dionysius, Fr. George Dragas, Fr. Florovsky, Dr. Kalomiros, Khomiakov, Kierevsky, Fr. Metallinos, St. Popovich, Bp. Kallistos, Yannaras, Valentine

 

• Apophthegmata Patrum trans. by Kevin P. Edgecomb

 

• “The Revival of Political Hesychasm in Greek Orthodox Thought: A Study of the Hesychast Basis of the Thought of John S. Romanides and Christos Yannaras” by Daniel Paul Payne