Product Description: Christians, as a second-century anonymous epistle notes, pass their days on earth, but are citizens of heaven. In this companion volume to God with Us: Critical Issues in Christian Life and Faith, Fr John Breck continues his exploration of the ethical and moral dilemmas facing believers who live in the flesh but not for the flesh...read more

Product Description: In this collaborative effort, Fr John and Lyn Breck provide practical, theological, and pastoral thinking on complex matters: the use of embryonic stem cells, gene therapy, new definitions of sexuality and marriage, treatment of addictive behavior and substance abuse, and end-of-life care...read more

Product Description: Theological books often focus on the ascent of the human to the Divine. This collection of reflections contemplates the Divine descending, acting within, and enlightening our day-to-day lives. Father John Breck's courageous reflections touch upon a wide and eclectic range of current ethical, biblical, liturgical, and doctrinal matters, as the chapter titles suggest: ;Ova for Sale; Violence against Women; Fighting Clergy Burnout; Who Wrote the Books of the Bible?;Do Icons Really Weep? and Nightmares...read more

Product Description: The Eastern Church Fathers stressed that the Bible is not sui generis but was born and shaped in a community of faith. They understood Scripture to be an essential element of Holy Tradition: the apostolic witness passed down and developed into the fundamental teachings of Orthodox Christianity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Fr. John Breck, an assistant professor of New Testament and Ethics at St Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary (U.S.A.) provides an inestimable service to his fellow Orthodox theologians and to Christian theologians at large with his present study, a collection of articles attempting to articulate a contemporary Orthodox hermeneutics...read more

Product Description: Since the first centuries of the Christian era, Eastern Christianity has expanded through the various cultures of the Middle East and Eastern Europe, using a variety of languages in its worship and thus allowing native peoples to accept Christianity as their own...read more

Product Description: Includes index. New Edition for 2008. We read Scripture as we read any literary work, to understand its meaning. Meaning is usually expressed through narrative development, that is, through the unfolding of a story. Meaning, however, can also be expressed by "parallelism:" the juxtaposition of ideas and images typical of poetry or musical compositions...read more

Product Description: Serve the Lord with Gladness brings together two related meditations on liturgical and priestly service. The first meditation 'Our Life in the Liturgy' consists of a simple yet beautiful explanation of the Divine Liturgy. It leads the reader step by step through the unfolding Eucharistic mystery, providing a profound spiritual vision of this most significant aspect of the Church's service to the Lord...read more

Product Description: Spirit of Truth is the first of a two-volume study of the origin and development of the teaching of the Holy Spirit as it appears in the Gospel and First Epistle of John. Scholarly works on Johannine Pneumatology have tended to concentrate on the image of Spirit as Paraclete or Advocate, and have neglected the specific 'hermeneutic' or teaching-interpreting role attributed to the Spirit throughout the New Testament and specifically in the thought of the fourth evangelist...read more