Elder Ambrose of Optina

Publication Data: Platina, CA: St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, 1997
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: 469
Dimensions (l × w × h): 21.0 cm × 13.5 cm × 2.5 cm
Additional Information: black-and-white illustrations
ISBN: 0‒938635‒60‒3

   
by Fr. Sergius Chetverikov

Volume 4 of The Optina Elders Series

“Now that Elder Ambrose and other major Elders of Optina Monastery have been canonized and works on Elder Ambrose are multiplying, we present this biography of him, written by a man who was closely associated with the literature of Optina and was personally involved with the Elders. The author, Archpriest Sergius I. Chetverikov, on whose 150th anniversary this volume is printed for the first time in the English language, was indeed an expert on Optina. He authored two volumes on St. Paisius Velichkovsky and ended his life as a Valaam monk in 1947.”
—“Introduction: Silence Transmitted”

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
CHRONOLOGY
THE LIFE OF ELDER AMBROSE OF OPTINA
   Author’s Introduction
   1. The Eternal Truth of Orthodoxy
   2. A Profile of the Spiritual Make-up of Elder Ambrose
   3. The Youth of Elder Ambrose
   4. The Call of God
   5. Optina Monastery—A Grace-Filled Corner of the Russian Land
   6. Optina Monastery and the Remarkable Monastic Movement
   7. The Spiritual Growth of Elder Ambrose
   8. The Eldership of Hieroschemamonk Ambrose
      Early Years of Eldership
      Fr. Ambrose’s Correspondence
      The Cell of Fr. Ambrose
      The Elder’s Pastoral Care
   9. The Last Podvig of Love of Elder Ambrose
   10. The Last Days of Elder Ambrose
   11. The Special Manifestations of the Grace-filled Power of God in Elder Ambrose
CONCLUSION
AKATHIST
GLOSSARY
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX