Hungry Orthodox Christian Reader: The “Hidden” Writings of Orthodox Christianity

Publication Data: Chicago, IL: OLGA Press, 2015
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: x + 310
Dimensions (l × w × h): 21.5 cm × 14.1 cm × 1.9 cm
ISBN: 978‒0‒996641‒0‒5

   
“This Reader is not spiritual guidance but practical direction. It is less about what Orthodox believe and more about how Orthodox believe. Most important, it is about the sources currently available in English. This book should leave you unsatisfied, appetite whetted. It is intended to expose the hungry reader to various types of Orthodox nourishment and to provide a key to the pantry. At the end of each chapter is a note regarding its source as well as a box full of Miscellanea: books, specimens, oddments related (usually) to that particular topic or type of writing. Many of these Miscellanea include Parent Friendly tips for busy parents (or relatives or friends) who are concerned to pass on their Orthodoxy to their children. One may not be inspired by each and every article, but wherever one feels a special resonance would be a good place to launch into further study (and practice/praxis).”
—“Preface”

CONTENTS

An Alternative Order for Reading
Orientation
Preface
Introduction
A View to Salvation
   1. Spiritual Anthropology
   2. The Path to Salvation
A Different Way of Seeing
   3. The Shepherd of Hermas
   4. The Unity of Christ’s Ideal
A Different Way of Knowing
   5. The Samaritan Woman at the Well
   6. The Mystery of Knowledge
A Different Association
   7. The Communion of Saints
   8. Valentine
   9. Annunciation Canon
A Different Attitude
   10. A Sower Went Out to Sow His Seed
   11. Glory Be to God!
   12. Weekday Hymnal
Divine Service
   13. Treatise on Prayer
   14. Short Hours
   15. Vesper Hymns
Daily Nurture
   16. Prologue of Ohrid
   17. An Odd Chapter
Daily Struggle
   18. Self-Restraint
   19. The War of Thoughts
   20. Life of Saint Stephen the New
Environmental Review
   21. Life of Saint Niphon
Epilogue
Appendix
   A Church Library
   My Favorite Matins
   Canon Basics
   Reading Calendar for Saint Gregory Palamas: The Homilies
Index
   Author
   Subject
   Miscellanea