562円 The Council of Clermont of 535 was one of the early synods of the Frankish church. Held at the Roman city of Arvernum, (later named Clermont), it was attended by fifteen prelates of the kingdom of Austrasia under the presidency of Honoratus, the bishop of Bourges. Among those bishops attending we...

562円 The medieval Russian church was reformed during the early 13th century following the mongol invasion. This is a brief catalogue of twelve letters regarding issues of regional heresy and episcopal jurisdiction. The latter works do make reference to the power of the parochial Russian rulers and the...

562円 The second synod of Mileum appealed to Pope Innocent I for a large scale repression of the Pelagian heresy, which was still strongly present in various cities in the African diocese. Sixty-one bishops of the Numidian church were in attendance to address heterodoxy that was still present in their ...

562円 St. Hilarion stands among some of the earliest saints of the Kievan church, helping to firmly root the Orthodox Christian faith in the Eurasian plain in Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine. While little is known historically about his life, this work, his magnum opus, grants a window into the Byzanti...

562円 This is a short library of some of the pastoral works of Pope Innocent IV, during his tenure over the Roman church in the 13th century. This includes the papal bulls: Dei Patris Inmensa (1245), Viam Agnoscere Veritatis (1248), Inter Personas Alias (1243), and Universis Christi Fidelibus (1250).

1,833円 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints. (Psalm 115:6) He was a rare, contemporary manifestation of the ascetic bishops of old, in whom a bold confession of the truth emerged in an organic way from the whole life in Christ. He was blameless in the Way, pure in the Life, and i...

1,410円 Freedom was proclaimed nearly 2000 years ago-freedom from the fear of death and bondage to the devil which results from it. Christ preached deliverance to the captives, making His Body, the Church, the Kingdom of freemen-kings, priests and prophets. In 2020 humanity was targeted again by the tyra...

846円 The impact of the contemporary ecumenical movement on the life of the Church in the 20th century has been immense. Orthodox involvement has steadily increased over the years and is now generally accepted as a given. Still, many questions remain unanswered and unasked. How did the modern ecumenica...

1,410円 In every generation there are those few exceptional souls who rise out of the conventionality of social life to become path-finders to the catholicity and otherworldliness of Christianity. Heroic and uncompromising, they imitate Abraham and become exiles and martyrs for Christ, following Him with...

2,114円 From economics, to politics, to religion, globalization has shown itself the most significant historical phenomenon of our time. No area of life or culture has gone untouched by the seemingly relentless global centralization of power. Globalization promises an "end" to history when all of the peo...

1,833円 In the lives of twenty-four Athonite Fathers of the twentieth century the reader encounters heaven on earth, the Gospel in action, the continuation of the Incarnation. Following the Holy Fathers, these holy ascetics lead us on the Way and connect us to the clouds of witnesses gone before us. Thei...

846円 As Christians give "rights" to the enemy through sin, the boundaries between Orthodoxy and heresy are blurred under the influence of the prince of this world. In response, the Holy Orthodox Church presents us with the wisdom of the holy ascetics, to inspire and form within us that ecclesiastical ...