Summer reading

[Teke]

What are some good books, articles, homilies etc. you've read this summer? And what were the subjects you were exploring?

[eoe]

I read The Mountain of Silence and Mere Christainity and am now working on Wounded by Love (http://www.tcgalaska.com/holycrosshermitage/HTML/books.asp)which I can not possibly recommend highly enough.

[kamikat]

Here's this summer's reading list
For the Life of the World by Fr Schmemann (completed)
The Historical Road to Eastern Orthodoxy, also Fr Schmemann (less than 100pages till complete)
Facing East- Fredrica Mathews-Greene (about 1/4 through)
The Icon,Window on the Kindgom-Michel Quenot
The Jesus Prayer by "a Monk of the Eastern Church"

[ClementofRome]

I have read this spring/summer:

Mathewes-Green , Facing East
Ware ,The Orthodox Way
Ware, The Orthodox Church
REREAD for the 2nd or 3rd time Fr. Seraphim Rose, Not of this world
Seraphim Rose, Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future
Schmemann, The Historical Road... (about 1/2 through)
Schaeffer, Dancing Alone
Philokalia v. 1 (about 1/2 way through)

I have in the NEW BOOK STACK!!!:
Mathewes-Green, At the Corner of East and Now
James Sire, Habits of the Mind: The Intellectual Life as a Christian Calling
Gillquist, Becoming Orthodox
Lossky, The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church
Philokalia, v. 2,3,4

[Grigorii]

The Bride of the Lamb (for maybe the tenth time) by Fr. Sergius Bulgakov (breath-taking,.. a difficult struggle,.. a theophany)

The Burning Bush by Fr. Sergius Bulgakov (as soon as SVS publishes it,.. which is supposedly this month)

The way to Nicea by Fr. John Behr (second time this summer I just read a few weeks ago)

The Mystery of Christ; Life in Death Fr. John Behr (finished a few weeks ago)

The Letters of St. Anthony the Great transl. by Derwas Chitty (finished it a week ago)

Unseen Warfare ed. by St. Theophan the Recluse

Severus of Antioch by Pauline Allen

Creation through Wisdom; Theology and the New Biology by Celia Deanne Drummond

Life-Giving Blessing; An Inquiry into the Eucharistic Doctrine of Cyril of Alexandria by prof. Ezra Gebremedhin (just finihed a few weeks ago,.. brilliant,.. )

Spiritual Dimensions of the Holy Canons by prof. Lewis J. Patsavos

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Ecco (over halfway thru)

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

If I manage to do all that,.. my summer will have been very productive indeed! At least for as far as I am concerned.;)

Grigorii

[Vasileios]

I read The Mountain of Silence and Mere Christainity and am now working on Wounded by Love (http://www.tcgalaska.com/holycrosshermitage/HTML/books.asp)which I can not possibly recommend highly enough.

I want to support eoe's recommendation. I think this makes it the 5th time I recommended Elder Porphyrios' book. :P

Feed me with opinions please, when you have them :)

[Tsarina]

I don't think i was searching for a particular subject, but a good book that i recently read is called, "Shepherd of Souls- The LIfe and Teachings of ELDER CLEOPA Master of Innter Prayer and Spiritual Father of Romania (1912-1998)." The book is by Archimandrite Ioanchie Balan.

An awesome read!

[Teke]

The Bride of the Lamb (for maybe the tenth time) by Fr. Sergius Bulgakov (breath-taking,.. a difficult struggle,.. a theophany)

The Burning Bush by Fr. Sergius Bulgakov (as soon as SVS publishes it,.. which is supposedly this month)

The way to Nicea by Fr. John Behr (second time this summer I just read a few weeks ago)

The Mystery of Christ; Life in Death Fr. John Behr (finished a few weeks ago)

The Letters of St. Anthony the Great transl. by Derwas Chitty (finished it a week ago)

Unseen Warfare ed. by St. Theophan the Recluse

Severus of Antioch by Pauline Allen

Creation through Wisdom; Theology and the New Biology by Celia Deanne Drummond

Life-Giving Blessing; An Inquiry into the Eucharistic Doctrine of Cyril of Alexandria by prof. Ezra Gebremedhin (just finihed a few weeks ago,.. brilliant,.. )

Spiritual Dimensions of the Holy Canons by prof. Lewis J. Patsavos

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Ecco (over halfway thru)

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

If I manage to do all that,.. my summer will have been very productive indeed! At least for as far as I am concerned.;)

Grigorii

I have "The Way to Nicea" by Behr in my pile to read this summer. How was it? Isn't there a couple others that go along with that one, like a three volume series and that being one of them.

I've read St Athanasius on the Incarnation, which was profound and St Basil on the Human Condition, both small books but filled with insight.

"Upon This Rock" was a very good one I've read lately.

I've also been reading from a website some articles on Jewish roots in Eastern Mysticism, to better relate with Messianic christians on the truth of Orthodoxy. Some awesome interpretations from the OT, like on Ezekials chariot vision and Christ. Seems I can't post a link yet or I would. Very enlightening stuff from an Orthodox perspective.:idea:

[Grigorii]

I've also been reading from a website some articles on Jewish roots in Eastern Mysticism, to better relate with Messianic christians on the truth of Orthodoxy. Some awesome interpretations from the OT, like on Ezekials chariot vision and Christ. Seems I can't post a link yet or I would. Very enlightening stuff from an Orthodox perspective.:idea:

You mean Fr. Golitzin's website? I'ver seen publications by him in Orthodox magazines,.. I like his stuff.

Grigorii

[Orthocat]

right now it's "Against the Protestant Gnostics"...wow.

[Michael the Iconographer]

The Icon, A Theology of Beauty by Pavel Evdokimov, as well as writing my own essay on iconography.

[Grigorii]

right now it's "Against the Protestant Gnostics"...wow.
I second that * wow* read that one last year,.. Polemical, yes, but good.Grigorii

[Grigorii]

The Icon, A Theology of Beauty by Pavel Evdokimov, as well as writing my own essay on iconography.
How, where, and when are you going to publish them? How do you like Evdokimov's book?Grigorii

[Michael the Iconographer]

How, where, and when are you going to publish them? How do you like Evdokimov's book?Grigorii

Evdokimov's book is very deep, and very good. It does a good job building support for the ideas he has. There are some parts that are a bit rought to get through, but in all it is one of the better treatments I have seen on iconography.

I have published my past two essays on iconography in WORD magazine, in '00 and '05. This one will be published there as well. If you want to drop me a pm with you address or email I will mail/email you copies of all three.

[Teke]

I have read this spring/summer:

Mathewes-Green , Facing East
Ware ,The Orthodox Way
Ware, The Orthodox Church
REREAD for the 2nd or 3rd time Fr. Seraphim Rose, Not of this world
Seraphim Rose, Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future
Schmemann, The Historical Road... (about 1/2 through)
Schaeffer, Dancing Alone
Philokalia v. 1 (about 1/2 way through)

I have in the NEW BOOK STACK!!!:
Mathewes-Green, At the Corner of East and Now
James Sire, Habits of the Mind: The Intellectual Life as a Christian Calling
Gillquist, Becoming Orthodox
Lossky, The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church
Philokalia, v. 2,3,4

I've read Dancing Alone by Schaeffer, and watched some of his videos. But I tired of hearing about his Protestant perspective so much, when I wanted to hear about Orthodoxy. I guess to polemic for me.

I'd like to read some more of Fr Seraphim Roses' books. But I read one, The Soul After Death, which I didn't personally take as church doctrine, but I enjoyed very much. And my bishop promptly had me read another book by Rev. Dr. Michael Azkoul, titled The Toll House Myth: The Neo Gnosticism of Fr Seraphim Rose.

I told my bishop I wasn't taking it as the churchs stand on the subject. But as an observation from Fr Rose. I have the other one you mentioned, Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future in the "to be read pile".

[Teke]

You mean Fr. Golitzin's website? I'ver seen publications by him in Orthodox magazines,.. I like his stuff.

Grigorii

Yes, that is it. There are a number of articles at marquette.edu/maqom

I've been posting my observations from some on a Messianic forum. I wouldn't mind hearing a Jewish observation of some of the papers. As some of the info is to Jewish for me to understand.

The one I mentioned on Ezekials chariot vision was written by Fr Goitzin, and he has quite a few others there as well, but there are many by other people as well.

[ClementofRome]

I've read Dancing Alone by Schaeffer, and watched some of his videos. But I tired of hearing about his Protestant perspective so much, when I wanted to hear about Orthodoxy. I guess to polemic for me.

I'd like to read some more of Fr Seraphim Roses' books. But I read one, The Soul After Death, which I didn't personally take as church doctrine, but I enjoyed very much. And my bishop promptly had me read another book by Rev. Dr. Michael Azkoul, titled The Toll House Myth: The Neo Gnosticism of Fr Seraphim Rose.

I told my bishop I wasn't taking it as the churchs stand on the subject. But as an observation from Fr Rose. I have the other one you mentioned, Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future in the "to be read pile".

Indeed Schaeffer is polemic! Probably too much so for a Protestant seeker, esp. one who revered his father. He had some good points, but his tone was just too harsh.

As for Rose....he was indeed a beautiful man. His bio is great....he travels all over the philosophical/religious world to ultimately land in Russian Orthodoxy. I loved it and still do. As for Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future, it is a bit dated now, but get ready for some polemics! He shreds the charismatic movement. I found it to be a good read, if not klunky at times as he changes gears with every chapter.

[Vasileios]

My personal favourites from Fr. Seraphim Rose were his biography that Clement already mentioned and Genesis, Creation and Early Man, an Orthodox perspective. That one I found absolutely great. Full of quotes from the ECF about Creation that all have a huge theological significance and of course a complete debunking of evolution.

I highly recommend that one.

[Theophorus]

My personal favourites from Fr. Seraphim Rose were his biography that Clement already mentioned and Genesis, Creation and Early Man, an Orthodox perspective. That one I found absolutely great. Full of quotes from the ECF about Creation that all have a huge theological significance and of course a complete debunking of evolution.

I highly recommend that one.

That is a good one. Genesis is such a foundational book and Fr. Rose does a good job of presenting a patristic view of the fall, marriage and creation etc.

[Theophorus]

I want to support eoe's recommendation. I think this makes it the 5th time I recommended Elder Porphyrios' book. :P

Feed me with opinions please, when you have them :)

I have read some of that book as well as the one which has numerous testimonies about him. Amazing.

In Wounded by Love, I like his description of the Church.

[wynd]

These are the Orthodox books I have read:

Becoming Orthodox
Facing East
The Mountain of Silence
The Orthodox Church
The Orthodox Way

It's been a slow summer :D