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What does the Orthodox Church teach and believe with regard to Catholicism? Who speaks for the Church? Which source is authoritative? The resounding answer, echoing in the heavens, is the united choir of the Holy Fathers as proclaimed in their lives and teachings. And yet, never, in the 1,000 years since the Great Schism, has this witness been collected into one volume and made accessible to you, the pious reader-until now.A tapestry of patristic testimony and sources of Holy Tradition, this book has over sixty entries from the Synaxarion, a dozen detailed historic analyses, a thorough examination of the unchangeability of the Creed within all nine Ecumenical Councils, with another dozen local councils analyzed. In addition, the book presents patristic confessions of thirty-three Holy Fathers from a period of over 1,000 years from across the Orthodox world, many dogmatic hymns from the divine services, declarations from the Holy Mountain, numerous writings from confessing hierarchs, holy elders, and other distinguished priests, monastics, and laymen, all of which provide the reader with the certain and comprehensive witness of the Orthodox Church, making this book essential reading for all who would acquire the mind of Christ concerning Catholicism.

Perhaps no single institution commands the devotion of more believers than the Papacy. Many believe the Pope of Rome possesses an infallible authority instituted by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. But, is this indeed the case? Engaging for scholars and laymen alike, The Rise and Fall of the Papacy is a groundbreaking analysis of the origin and ecclesiastical transformation of the pre-schism Church of Rome. Century by century, author Patrick Truglia combs through an array of sources spanning the entire first millennium, including the Talmud, Holy Scriptures, Oecumenical Councils, and new translations of Papal correspondence. Uncovering the jurisdictional subterfuge of the Easter Controversy, the untold story of the Church of Rome reforming Pope Stephen's sacramentology, the depositions and anathematization of Popes, and much more, one discovers the macrohistorical importance of Anastasius the Librarian. Once shrouded in mystery, this backroom actor rises from the status of laicized cleric to anti-Pope and finally to the puppet-master behind the most influential Papal chanceries of the 9th century. Due to this one man's extensive work, the Papacy was reinvented and western Christianity has never been the same since.

¿¿ many ¿ modern man, holiness seems an exceptional, if not exotic, possession of ¿ bye-gone age.Even when modern day saints emerge, modern man struggles to connect their lives with his own, to bring the lessons learned from them alive in his own life. This struggle is made "easy'' and the "yoke" of true life in Christ is made light upon encountering the Life and Witness of Saint Iakovos of Evia.From holy roots in Asia Minor, where ¿ rich spiritual treasure was inherited from holy ancestors, to his ascetic struggle on the island of Evia, where rich spiritual fruit was borne forth, Saint lakovos' life is pure inspiration for the spiritual athlete. Herein one will hear his life told in the first person, from his own perspective and in his own way: how his family established ¿ new home as refugees, how God called him from childhood on the path to monasticism and His Grace poured through him for the edification of ¿ll around him; how he lived as ¿ hieromonk and spiritual father to many.The narrator of this true life is the saint's close spiritual child and physician, an "eye-witness" of the mystery and the miracle that is the theanthropic life incarnate in man. ¿¿ helps make this book ¿ bridge to the other side of life, the one hidden in Christ, allowing us insight into the saint's own experience of clinging to reverent piety, cultivating Orthodox faith in Christ, and pursuing holiness even amidst the malaise of modernity.

This towering figure of Orthodox spiritual life and teaching, the boast of Thessaloniki and spokesman for the Holy Mountain of Athos, is well known to students of Orthodox theology for his defense of the Hesychasts and exposition of the teaching of the Fathers on the Divine Energies and Theosis. What is not known, and with regard to which there is often great ignorance, even among Orthodox theologians in the West, is that the great hesychast was also a great defender of the Faith and Dogma of the Holy Trinity and a strident polemicist against the heresy of the filioque.Now the divine wisdom of the theologian of Grace applied and embraced by the Church for more than half a millennium is available in the English language for all lovers of the Holy Trinity to be edified and enlightened. For the first time, St. Gregory's masterpiece, Apodictic Treatises on the Procession of the Holy Spirit, is available in English."Having returned again to the queen of cities, he published his treatise in two books against the Latins on the procession of the Holy Spirit in a wonderful way. This treatise was something original and extraordinary; our Church had never seen anything like it before on the subject. Indeed, to tell the truth, without any dissemblance or pretense, it was such as to make all the treatises against the Latins before this one look like childish games and mere semblances of dialectical argument."- St. Philotheos Kokkinos, excerpt from 'Life of St. Gregory Palamas'NOTESBILINGUAL TEXT: Greek edition on the left pages with translated English edition opposite facing on the right pages.Early 1st edition in softcover. Full 1st edition (with index) soon to be released in hardcover.First time in EnglishTranslated by Fr. Christopher MoodyDETAILSFirst published: October 2022Length: 358 pagesSize: 6 x 9 inches