Product Description: In 1969, John Erickson was twelve years old, and he found himself in the hospital, checking out some serious headaches and a slight loss of his eyesight. He would have nine operations over the next three years to save his life, but he would become legally blind in the process...read more

Product Description: In the fall of 1972, John Erickson was 16 years old, and things were not going well. It was his ninth emergency visit to a hospital in the last four years, and he lay unconscious after a seizure at Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago...read more

Product Description: Although there are over 200 million Orthodox Christians worldwide, 4 million of whom live in the United States, their history, beliefs, and practices are unfamiliar to most Americans. This book outlines the evolution of Orthodox Christian dogma, which emerged for the first time in 33 A...read more

Briefly outlines the evolution of Orthodox Christian dogma, which emerged for the first time in 33 A.D., and examines American Orthodoxy--a tradition that traces its origins back to the first Greek and Russian immigrants in the 1700s.

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This is the complete music and text for the Lenten liturgy of the presanctified gifts. Revised and updated, this volume includes several musical settings for all "sung" parts of the service and the musical arrangements include the traditional settings of the original chant melodies including Byzantine, Kievan, Anamenny and Carpatho-Russian as well as compositions by church composers such as Bortniansky, Lvovsky, Arkhangelsky and others. Several arrangements by contemporary church musicians are also included. This edition also includes rubrics and two appendices containing texts from the Triodon and the Octobechos.

Product Description: Vladimir Lossky established himself as one of the most brilliant Orthodox scholars in the years between his departure from Russia in 1923 and his death in 1958. His uncompromising faithfulness to scriptural and patristic tradition, coupled with his constant concern for an articulate Orthodox witness in the West, make his works indispensable for an understanding of the theology of the Eastern Church today...read more

Product Description: Since 1965 Catholics and Orthodox in North America have been engaged in official theological dialogue. This text presents the history and current state of dialogue between the churches, as well as examining what has been accomplished during these decades of dialogue, and which obstacles to full communion still remain...read more