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Michael Plekon
Priest and scholar Michael Plekon traces the spiritual journeys of several American Christians, using their memoirs and other writings. These saints in- the-making show all their doubts and imperfections as…
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Plekon argues that prayer encompasses a much wider variety of activity than formal and liturgical prayers and that commonplace aspects of the Christian life are best understood as prayer.
In his new book, Saints As They Really Are, priest and scholar Michael Plekon traces the spiritual journeys of several American Christians, using their memoirs and other writings. These "saints-in-the-making"…
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Parishes of all denominations are in decline, shrinking, closing, dying. We know that there are increasing numbers, young and older, who are religiousnonesanddones.This book explores why…
Olga Lossky
Lossky’s biography of Elisabeth Behr-Sigel tracks the life of one of the most important Orthodox theologians of the twentieth century through WWII and her teaching career afterwards.
Hidden Holiness challenges us to examine the concept of holiness by exploring the hidden holiness founded on the calling of all to be witness to the Gospel
Michael P Plekon
Not a few figures-writers, poets, activists, teachers-have focused on the presence of the Holy One in the ordinary, on the many possibilities of worldly spirituality. In this book, pastor, teacher…
This work presents a collection of essays highlighting not only the vibrant tradition of the 20th century Eastern Orthodox thought, but also the necessity of its inclusion in the theological…
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An intimate portrait of holiness as exemplified in the lives and thoughts of ten people of faith in the Eastern Orthodox Church. The author introduces readers to a diverse and…
Nicholas Afanasiev
Permiakov’s lucid translation and Plekon’s careful editing and substantive introduction make one of the most important works of twentieth-century Orthodox theology available for the first time to an English-speaking audience.
The origin of the phrase the church has left the building lies with Elvis. In order to clear halls of his riotous fans after concerts, it was announced that Elvis…
Hyacinthe Destivelle
This study is an examination of the historic All-Russia Church Council of 1917-1918 that marked both the culmination and the beginning of a new epoch in modern Russian Orthodoxy.
Hyacinthe Destivelle, O.P.
