These books are available for purchase from the Saint Luke Resource
Center. The Center is open every Sunday during Fellowship Hour after Divine Liturgy.
Deacon Danial Doss will be happy to assist you in selecting the book that is right for
you.
Orthodox Study Bible |
Format: Hardbound
Price: $27.95
Description: Discover Orthodox Christianity in the pages of the New Testament.
Contains explanatory notes by eminent Orthodox New Testament scholars and theologians to
lead us to the true Orthodox understanding of the Scriptures. A unique personal study guide.
Perfect for group study, Sunday Schools and inquirer's classes. Available in leather, cloth
and softbound.
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Orthodox Handbook: Bible and Church History |
Author: Father Thomas Hopko
Format: Softbound
Price: $7.95
Description: Introductory texts on Orthodox faith and life, presented in brief
chapters. Excellent for quick reference as well as teaching material for teens or adults.
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The Orthodox Church |
Author: Kallistos Ware
Format: Softbound
Price: $16.95
Description: New revised edition. An excellent book on the history, liturgy,
sacraments and teachings of the Orthodox Church written by an eminent spiritual leader and
scholar.
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Becoming Orthodox: A Journey to the Ancient Christian Faith |
Author: Peter E. Gillquist
Format: Softbound
Price: $13.95
Description: This is the story of a group of evangelical Christians who engaged in the
search for the Church of the New Testament and found it in the Eastern Orthodox Tradition. Its
impact beautifully touches those of us born and raised in the Orthodox faith.
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Introducing The Orthodox Church: Its Faith And Life |
Author: Anthony M. Coniaris
Format: Softbound
Price: $15.95
Description: Here is a genuinely different and practical book for the inquirer and potential
convert to Orthodox Christianity. It is different in a number of ways, all of which commend this
volume to wide use by pastors whose task it is to introduce the members of their inquirers classes
to an Orthodox way of life which will touch their lives in a full and complete way (Fr. Stanley
Harakas). Chapters include: What We Believe About the One Apostolic Church, the Nicene Creed, Jesus,
the Holy Trinity, the Divine Liturgy, Salvation, the Church Fathers, the Church Year, Symbols,
the Sacraments, the Saints and the Theotokos, Life After Death, the Bible, Icons, Prayers for
the Dead, and Prayer. Recently translated in Korean and Romanian.
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Inner Kingdom |
Author: Bishop Kallistos Ware
Format: Softbound
Price: $14.95
Description: This is a revised and expanded version of a book that has appeared in French,
Italian, and Greek. It focuses on themes central to Orthodox worship and spiritual life and
serves as an introduction to the series of Bishop Kallistos' collected work of which this is
the first of six volumes. The first three chapters provide profound and illumining insights on
death, bereavement and resurrection in Christ; and repentance. Chapters four and five (Silence
in Prayer and Pray without Ceasing) invite us into the world of the desert asecetics and
hesychast monks. The next three chapters concern personal vocation, martyrdom, spiritual
fatherhood and the strange path of the fool for Christ's sake. There follows brief essays on
the theology of time and the spiritual purposes of higher education. The final chapter is a
challenging discussion of Origen and SS Gregory of Nyssa, Isaac the Syrian and Silouan the
Athonite.
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Living Prayer |
Author: Metropolitan Anthony Bloom
Format: Softbound
Price: $???
Description: Written by a former French Resistance fighter and a medical doctor, now a
leader in Britain of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Anthony's Living Prayer has
become a classic introduction to prayer.
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Way of a Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Continues on His Way |
Author: ???
Format: Softbound
Price: $8.95
Description: This is a great classic of Orthodox spirituality, specifically on the origin
and practice of the Jesus Prayer. This book will help transform your life as it establishes
you on the path of unceasing prayer.
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The Faith: An Orthodox Catechism |
Author: Clark Carlton
Format: Softbound
Price: $22.95
Description: A new comprehensive Orthodox catechism. Written by a former catechumen for
catechumens. A straightforward exposition written in an easy to understand style. 288 pp
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Great Lent |
Author: Father Alexander Schmemann
Format: Softbound
Price: $9.95
Description: This notable Orthodox theologian and teacher expounds all the richness
and depth of the liturgical experience of Great Lent in the Church. Every Orthodox lay
person should read this book for Lent.
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Celebration of Faith Sermons: I Believe |
Author: Father Alexander Schmemann
Format: Softbound
Price: $9.95
Description: Sunday talks by a great liturgical scholar. As is well known, Fr.
Schmemann preached more than 3,000 sermons over the course of many years into the Soviet
Union through Radio Liberty. Here are some of those talks for you to feast on.
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Eastern Orthodoxy: A Way of Life |
Author: Anthony M. Coniaris
Format: Softbound
Price: $11.95
Description: Hailed by Patriarch Athenagoras I as a spiritual milestone! Acclaimed by
Dr. Nicholas Zernov, Archbishop Iakovos and numerous other Orthodox clergy and lay people.
Here is a book that makes the teachings of the Orthodox Church personal and practical.
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Of Water and the Spirit |
Author: Father Alexander Schmemann
Format: Softbound
Price: $10.95
Description: A study of the Orthodox understanding of initiation - Baptism and
Chrismation - that penetrates the Church's rites to reveal their inner content: the
message of our entrance into the new life of the Kingdom.
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Repentance And Confession |
Author: Saint Nektarios
Format: Softbound
Price: $12.00
Description: A Description will be added.
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The Orthodox Way |
Author: Kallistos Ware
Format: Softbound
Price: $10.95
Description: This work is a classic account of the belief, worship and life of the
Orthodox Church. It raises the basic issues of theology; God as hidden yet revealed; the
problem of evil; the nature of salvation; the meaning of faith; prayer; death; and what lies
beyond. Written clearly and simply with reference to both Eastern and Western Christian sources.
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Jesus Prayer: A Monk of the Eastern Church |
Author: Kallistos Ware
Format: Softbound
Price: $9.95
Description: The genesis and practice of the Jesus Prayer in the Eastern Church. This
unique study provides the reader with both a historical and spiritual understanding of the
prayer which simply invokes the name of Jesus. It reveals the scriptural and patristic origins
of the prayer, its use in the ascetic tradition of Sinai and Mt. Athos, and the practice of
the prayer down to our own day in both the Eastern and Western churches. An excellent guide for
prayer and meditation.
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