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Print: $32.97 This collection of selected letters of Severus, Patriarch of Antioch, between 512 and 518, and perhaps the greatest theologian of the Oriental Orthodox communion, are presented here to promote the mutual understanding of all Orthodox Christians and to further the efforts towards reconciliation between the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches.
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Print: $27.96 This work by the late Father V.C. Samuel of the Indian Orthodox Church is the fruit of an entire life devoted to the study of the Orthodox faith. It is perhaps the most important study of Christology and the Council of Chalcedon to be published in the 20th century, and it is a privilege to be involved in its re-publication in the 21st century for a new generation of students and christians.
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Print: $23.97 Palladius was a monk from Galatia, who spent many years in the Egyptian deserts compiling the history of Christian monasticism. He went to Egypt in A.D. 388, spending three years around Alexandria visiting the countless hermitages. He went inland to the Nitrian Desert where he stayed for another three years. As the settlement at Nitria continued to grow, some of the more serious ascetics found they needed more solitude and moved nine miles away into a desolate area of the desert later called Cellia. Palladius spent nine years with the Orthodox hermits there and recorded many stories about them. This volume is of inestimable value since it is an eye-witness account of the desert monastic life and spirituality of the 4th century.
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Print: $33.52 The Syriac Chronicle of Zachariah of Mitylene is a very important source of information about the anti- Chalcedonian communion to the middle of the 6th century. It contains letters by many of the patriarchs and leading figures of the resistance to Chalcedon, as well as documentary evidence of the basis of the long standing and principled objection to the Chalcedonian
position.
This translation of the Syriac Chronicle of Zachariah of Mitylene was produced by F.J. Hamilton and E.W.
Brooks in 1899.
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Print: $38.74 Philoxenus (Syriac, Aksenaya) of Mabbog (died 523), was one of the best of Syriac prose writers, and a vehement champion of the Anti-Chalcedonian doctrine in the end of the 5th and
beginning of the 6th centuries.
The years which followed the Council of Chalcedon were a stormy period in the Syrian Church. Philoxenus soon attracted notice by his strenuous advocacy of Non-Chalcedonian doctrine, and on the expulsion of Calandio in 485 was ordained bishop of Mabbog by his Non-Chalcedonian successor Peter the Fuller . It was probably during the earlier years of his episcopate that Philoxenus composed his thirteen discourses on the Christian life.
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Print: $39.28 St Cyril of Alexandria is one of the greatest Fathers of the 5th century, well known for his contributions to the Christological debates concerning Nestorius, but his scriptural commentaries are less well known, and are harder to obtain in English translation. This commentary is especially important because it allows us to gain an insight into St Cyril’s theology through the medium of his writing about the Gospel of St John.
This translation of the Commentary on the Gospel of St John by St Cyril of Alexandria was first published in 1885 and was translated by H.P. Liddon.
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Print: $39.32 St Cyril of Alexandria is one of the greatest Fathers of the 5th century, well known for his contributions to the Christological debates concerning Nestorius, but his scriptural commentaries are less well known, and are harder to obtain in English translation. This commentary is especially important because it allows us to gain an insight into St Cyril’s theology through the medium of his writing about the Gospel of St John.
This translation of the Commentary on the Gospel of St John by Sy Cyril of Alexandria was first published in 1874 and was translated by P.E. Pusey.
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Print: $36.30 St Cyril of Alexandria is one of the greatest Fathers of the 5th century, well known for his contributions to the Christological debates concerning Nestorius. This collection of some of his important Christological and controversial works contains some of his most well known texts, such as 'That Christ is One', his writings against Nestorius, and his Scholia on the Incarnation.
This volume also contains fragments fron his writings against Theodore, Diodore and the Synousiasts.
This translation of these writings by St Cyril of Alexandria was first published in 1881 and was translated by P.E. and E.B. Pusey.
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Print: $29.84 St Cyril of Alexandria is one of the greatest Fathers of the 5th century, well known for his contributions to the Christological debates concerning Nestorius, but his scriptural commentaries are less well known, and are harder to obtain in English translation. This commentary is especially important because it allows us to gain an insight into St Cyril’s theology through the medium of his writing about the Gospel of St John.
This translation of the Commentary on the Gospel of St John by St Cyril of Alexandria was first published in 1885 and was translated by H.P. Liddon.
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Print: $34.30 The History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria is the Liber Pontificalis of the Coptic church. The first part of it is a compilation made, as we read in one of the prefaces at the head of the manuscripts, by Severus, bishop of El-Eschmounein in upper Egypt, between Minieh and Asiout, based on Greek and Coptic documents which he found in the monasteries of his country, and which he translated with the help of some clerks. This history of the first centuries of the Coptic church is based above all on Eusebius and some primitive Acts,
But from the seventh century on, and above all from the era of the Arab conquest, the history of the patriarchs becomes much more complete and more interesting. Here we have a series of real biographies written by contemporary authors, such as John the Deacon, in the time of the patriarch Michael I, and George, archdeacon and syncellus of the patriarch Simon.
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Print: $35.06 The Bazaar of Heracleides is the apology written
by Nestorius, the bishop of Constantinople after
his deposition and exile as a result of the Council of Ephesus in 431 AD. The work appears to have been produced in 451 or 452, and is valuable because it allows the student of the Christological controversies of the 5th century, and especially those interested in the Oriental Orthodox response to those controversies, to come to an understanding of the considered theological position of one of the main opponents of St Cyril and his Christology. This translation was produced in 1925 by G.R. Driver and Leonard Hodgson.
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Print: $34.48 The Kebra Nagast, or the Book of the Glory of Kings, is an account written in Ge'ez of the origins of the Solomonic line of the Emperors of Ethiopia. The text, in its existing form, is at least seven hundred years old, and is considered by many Ethiopian Christians to be an inspired and a reliable account. Not only does it contain an account of how the Queen of Sheba met Solomon, and about how the Ark of the Covenant came to Ethiopia with Menelik I, but contains an account of the conversion of the Ethiopians from the worship of the sun, moon, and stars to that of the "Lord God of Israel".
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Print: $14.69 The present brief work by J.M. Harden is not intended to be more than is expressed in its title an Introduction to Ethiopic Christian Literature. It is not meant for Ethiopic scholars, but its purpose is to give as simple an account as possible of the Literature with which it deals. Hence its method. It seemed necessary to say something, first of all, of the language and the general history of the Church and country, which, to say the least, are not at all well known. Then follows a brief sketch of the literature as a whole. The concluding chapters deal each with one department of the literature, commencing with the Bible.
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Print: $9.38 In this first paper in the Occasional Paper series, A. Mingana provides the text and translation, accompanied by a critical apparatus, of an apocryphal story dealing with the flight of the holy family into Egypt and the life which it led in that country. The story is cast in the mould of a vision of the Virgin Mary and entitled the Vision of Theophilus, who was Patriarch of Alexandria in A.D. 385-412. Of all the Patriarchs of that great city he is probably the one who showed more zeal in the destruction of pagan temples and monuments.
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Print: $7.18 Morison provides a useful introduction to the monastic rule of St Basil of Caesarea. St Basil is one of the great founders of monasticism in the East, and had an influence on St Benedict and the development of monasticism in the West.
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Print: $22.33 Facsimile Edition: The Syrian Church in India, which is sometimes called the Church of the Christians of St Thomas, was little known in the West until recent times. This facsimile of the volume by G. M. Rae, who lived and worked in India, was one of the first modern historical works about this ancient community.
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Print: $23.92 Facsimile Edition: This volume contains translations of all the important Ethiopic legends of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the companion volume of translations of the Ethiopic versions of the Miracles of our Lady. The translation of these Ethiopic texts was produced by E.A. Wallis Budge in 1922.
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Print: $23.92 This facsimile edition contains the Coptic versions of ten Greek homilies on fasting, repentance, and the Incarnation, which are attributed to John the Faster, Athanasius, Proclus, Eusebius, Basil and Theophilus. The translation of these Coptic homilies was produced by E.A. Wallis Budge in 1910.
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Print: $4.64 These prayers of the British Orthodox Church within the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate are taken from the Coptic Orthodox Agpeya, or Book of Hours. These are the same texts as published in the existing edition, but in a handy pocket book format.
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Print: $7.78 This very interesting work was composed by Bar Salibi, the famous Syrian bishop of the 12th century. It is in the form of a long address to a certain Rabban 'Isho', a West Syrian monk of some importance, who had evidently shown some leniency towards the Melchites, and was about to leave, or had already left, his own community to join them. He had written a long letter to Bar Salibi on this subject, and it is this lost letter that has given birth to the present treatise. Bar Salibi analyses verbatim his opponent's missive, and refutes it. Within the ten chapters of his refutation he deals with many interesting topics such as the form of the Trisagion, of making the sign of the cross, and of liturgical tradition.
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Print: $14.70 These three Encomiums were written about the beginning of the VIIth century, and in them we see some of the earliest specimens of this class of Coptic literature in existence. The lives of Coptic saints and the Encomiums upon them are generally too full of miracles and somewhat monotonous exhortations to the listener and reader, but these Encomiums now published for the first time are interesting exceptions to the rule, for they contain narratives which are full of importance, not only for the philologist and antiquary, but also for the student of comparative folk-lore and demonology. They were translated by E.A. Wallis Budge in 1894.
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Print: $18.12 These translations of the Letters and Life of Simon the Stylites are found in a Syriac manuscript in the context of the Syrian non-Chalcedonian community. Simon was therefore considered a figure of some importance within the Syrian Church. He was also apparently considered to have rejected Chalcedon and therefore have been aligned with the anti-Chalcedonian movement. Torrey considers these anti-Chalcedonian letters of Simon to be forgeries, but are they? Further investigation of this interesting topic is required.
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Print: $9.38 This is the second publication in the Occasioal Papers series. We owe the preservation of the short Chronicle of Joshua the Stylite
to the care of a later historian, Dionysius of Tell-Mahre, patriarch of
the Jacobites (ob. A. Gr. 1156, A.D. 845), who incorporated it with his
own larger work, which deserves to be made accessible to students of
history without further delay. Of Joshua we know little more than what
he has himself thought fit to tell us. He wrote his Chronicle at the
request of one Sergius, the abbot of a convent in the district of Edessa.
The last date which occurs in it is 28th November A.D. 506
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Print: $25.17 The Philocalia or Philokalia of Origen is a compilation of selected
passages from the writings of Origen made by St.
Gregory Nazianzus and St Basil of Caesarea. Though
he was controversial even in his own life time, and
some of his teachings came to be condemned by the
Church, nevertheless Origen was an inspiration to
many of the greatest Fathers and his writings deserve
to be widely known, if studied with discretion.
This translation of the Philocalia by Origen of
Alexandria was first published in 1911 and was
translated by George Lewis.
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Print: $16.60 Patristic Study is an excellent introduction to the writings of the Fathers of the first Christian
centuries. Professor H.B. Swete describes and
catalogues all the important authors of the East
and West, and though this volume does not cover
the Fathers of the Oriental Orthodox communion
after Chalcedon, nevertheless since it concentrates almost exclusively on the univeral Fathers of the centuries before Chalcedon it is of great value and use to students of the Oriental Orthodox churches.
This work was first published in 1902
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Print: $7.70 This is the Handbook of the British Orthodox Fellowship. It has been published to help you experience something of the Orthodox faith
and life of the British Orthodox Church whether you are a member of the British Orthodox Church, or of some other Christian community.
Fundamentally, it is only by experiencing Orthodox faith and life for yourself that you will gain a personal appreciation of its power to transform the lives of British people.
The British Orthodox Fellowship exists to support individuals as well as small groups. You may pray the prayers in this volume on your own, or you may be part of a small community of other enquirers who pray them together. Some of these praying communities may eventually become the
nucleus of future British Orthodox churches, whilst others will remain as British Orthodox Fellowship groups, allowing members to pray
Orthodox prayers, and experience something of the transforming power of Orthodox Christianity and Spirituality.
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