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Tag Archives: Orthodoxy
How Dante Can Save Your Life
How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History’s Greatest Poem © 2015 Rod Dreher 322 pages Selected Quotations How Dante Can Save Your Life is one man’s account of how that Renaissance poet’s epic tale of a … Continue reading
The Lost Gospel of Mary
The Lost Gospel of Mary: The Mother of Jesus in Three Ancient Texts © 2012 Frederica Mathewes-Green 178 pages We are presently in the season of Advent, an ideal time to take a look at a question of mine: … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, noncanonical or heretical Christian texts, Orthodoxy, religion
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Welcome to the Orthodox Church
Welcome to the Orthodox Church © 2015 Fredrica Mathews-Green 384 pages What it means to be liturgical can’t be encapsulated in a creed; liturgy has to be practiced, experienced. In Welcome to Orthodoxy, FMG creates a fictional Orthodox parish and … Continue reading
The Benedict Option
The Benedict Option © 2017 Rod Dreher 269 pages Christendom has fallen; long live Christendom. In The Benedict Option, Rob Dreher argues that the Christian church in the United States is at a crisis point and must now think … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholicism, Christianity, localism, monastics, Orthodoxy, praxis, religion, Rod Dreher
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The Orthodox Church
The Orthodox Church© 1963, 1993 Kallistos (Timothy) Ware368 pages Who are the Orthodox? To the extent Americans have heard of them, it is through eastern European immigrant communities. Those who paid marginal attention in western civ might remember something called … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, Eastern Europe, Eastern Rome/Byzantine, Orthodoxy, religion, Russia
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This week: the usual suspects
Well, dear readers, it’s another month! I have a serious itch for science and science fiction at the moment, so I have no less than five potential science reads stacked up now, and three potential SF books. Among the numbers…Domesticated: Evolution in … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged Arabia, Christianity, Eastern Rome/Byzantine, history, Islam, Middle East, military, Near East, Orthodoxy, Persia, Persia-Iran
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The Way
The Way: What Every Protestant Needs to Know About Orthodoxy© 2007 Clark Carlton222 pages If Protestantism is a willful child of the Catholic church, what is it to the Orthodox? What is the Orthodox faith for that matter, Catholicism … Continue reading
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