Product Description: The official guide to the most important holy sites of the Orthodox Church - the Rome of the Eastern Church. An essential guide book for the visitor to Istanbul and a companion for every one of the 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide.

Product Description: Can Orthodox Christianity offer unique spiritual resources especially suited to the environmental concerns of today? This book makes the case that yes, it can. In addition to being the first substantial and comprehensive collection of essays, in any language, to address environmental issues from the Orthodox point of view, this volume with contributions from the most highly influential theologians and philosophers in contemporary world Orthodoxy will engage a wide audience, in academic as well as popular circles--resonating not only with Orthodox audiences but with all those in search of a fresh approach to environmental theory and ethics that can bring the resources of ancient spirituality to bear on modern challenges...read more

Product Description: Over the past two decades, the world has witnessed alarming environmental degradation--climate change, the loss of biodiversity, and the pollution of natural resources--together with a failure to implement environmental policies and an ever-widening gap between rich and poor...read more

Product Description: Words of spiritual counsel from the heart of early Christian monasticism.

Product Description: This book is both a testimonial and hymn, and it reveals the great reverence for creation which lices in the heart of Christian tradition.

Product Description: John Chryssavgis explores the ascetic teaching and theology of St John Climacus, a classical and formative writer of the Christian medieval East, and the author of the seventh-century Ladder of Divine Ascent. This text proved to be the most widely used handbook of the spiritual life in the Christian East, partly because of its unique and striking symbol of the ladder that binds together the whole book...read more

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Product Description: Children know and touch God in a very unique way, "for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Their first perception of God, their first sense of what is divine and holy, comes to them through their physical senses. This book shows them the people, places and things they will come to know and love as their religious experience and knowledge develop...read more

Product Description: Presents the full ecological significance of the Orthodox Christian worldview. It explores the deepest sense and experience of the world as a sacrament. Evokes some of the most beautiful and powerful theological thinking, with imagery that suggests a richness beyond expression