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On the Incarnation (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.38 — 16,181 ratings — published 318
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.00 — 76,065 ratings — published 400
City of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as patristics)
avg rating 3.95 — 13,938 ratings — published 426
St. Irenaeus of Lyons: On the Apostolic Preaching | Early Christian Theology Book for Biblical Studies | Second Century Church Father Writings | ... Faith and Scripture (Popular Patristics)
by (shelved 49 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,719 ratings — published 1997
On the Holy Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,275 ratings — published 375
On Christian Doctrine (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,052 ratings — published 397
The Book of Pastoral Rule (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.17 — 817 ratings — published 600
The Life of Moses (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,303 ratings — published 390
On God and Christ, The Five Theological Orations and Two Letters to Cledonius: St. Gregory of Nazianzus (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,080 ratings — published 379
On the Unity of Christ (Popular Patristics)
by (shelved 36 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.36 — 737 ratings — published 429
On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ: Selected Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.45 — 703 ratings — published 2003
The Trinity (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,327 ratings — published 416
On the Divine Images: 3 Apologies Against Those Who Attack the Divine Images (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.28 — 640 ratings — published 1980
On Social Justice: St. Basil the Great (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.53 — 656 ratings — published 2009
On The Human Condition: St. Basil the Great (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.43 — 327 ratings — published 2005
St John Chrysostom – On Marriage and Family Life | Bilingual Edition in English and Ancient Greek | Christian Marriage and Parenting Book with Early ... Orthodox Spiritual Guide (Popular Patristics)
by (shelved 30 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,033 ratings — published 1986
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Cistercian Studies, #59)
by (shelved 27 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,554 ratings — published 1975
On Wealth and Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.47 — 489 ratings — published 1984
Six Books on the Priesthood (Popular Patristics)
by (shelved 26 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.25 — 519 ratings — published 1907
The Didache (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,352 ratings — published 70
On the Soul and the Resurrection (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.15 — 470 ratings — published 379
On First Principles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.20 — 416 ratings — published 215
The Life of St. Anthony (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,696 ratings — published 357
An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.42 — 404 ratings — published 700
The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,902 ratings — published 324
Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,354 ratings — published 1968
The Scandal of the Incarnation: Irenaeus Against the Heresies (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.25 — 471 ratings — published 177
St. Ignatius of Antioch: The Epistles (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.37 — 566 ratings — published 107
St. Ephrem the Syrian: Hymns On Paradise (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.51 — 315 ratings — published
The Apostolic Fathers: Greek Texts and English Translations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.34 — 965 ratings — published
The Complete Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.28 — 871 ratings — published 530
On Pascha: With the Fragments of Melito and Other Material Related to the Quartodecimans (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press "Popular Patristics" Series)
by (shelved 18 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.23 — 240 ratings — published 170
Works on the Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.26 — 136 ratings — published 2011
Athanasius: The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinus (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.18 — 646 ratings — published 357
The First and Second Apologies (Ancient Christian Writers)
by (shelved 15 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.13 — 698 ratings — published 150
On the Church: Select Treatises (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as patristics)
avg rating 3.95 — 75 ratings — published 2006
Catechetical Discourse: A Handbook for Catechists (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.27 — 147 ratings — published
Festal Orations (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.52 — 88 ratings — published 2008
On Fasting and Feasts (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.29 — 100 ratings — published 2013
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol 1 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.34 — 208 ratings — published 1885
On Christine Doctrine and Practice (Popular Patristics, 47)
by (shelved 15 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.43 — 47 ratings — published 2012
Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,300 ratings — published 1967
On the Holy Icons (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.32 — 116 ratings — published 1981
The Augustine Catechism: The Enchiridon on Faith, Hope, and Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.11 — 801 ratings — published 420
On the Apostolic Tradition (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press "Popular Patristics" Series)
by (shelved 15 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.15 — 130 ratings — published 300
The Fathers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.38 — 572 ratings — published 2008
Dialogue with Trypho (Selections from the Fathers of the Church)
by (shelved 14 times as patristics)
avg rating 3.93 — 295 ratings — published 150
John Climacus: The Ladder of Divine Ascent (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,084 ratings — published 600
The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,106 ratings — published 2003
The Rule of Saint Benedict (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as patristics)
avg rating 4.00 — 8,488 ratings — published 530
“The Kingdom of God is not a Talmud, nor is it a mechanical collection of scriptural or patristic quotations outside our being and our lives. The Kingdom of God is within us, like a dynamic leaven which fundamentally changes man's whole life, his spirit and his body. What is required in patristic study, in order to remain faithful to the Fathers' spirit of freedom and worthy of their spiritual nobility and freshness, is to approach their holy texts with the fear in which we approach and venerate their holy relics and holy icons. This liturgical reverence will soon reveal to us that here is another inexpressible grace. The whole atmosphere is different. There are certain vital passages in the patristic texts which, we feel, demand of us, and work within us, an unaccustomed change.
These we must make part of our being and our lives, as truths and as standpoints, to leaven the whole. And at the same time we must put our whole self into studying the Fathers, waiting and marking time. This marriage, this baptism into patristic study brings what we need, which is not an additional load of patristic references and the memorizing of other people's opinions, but the acquisition of a new clear-sighted sense which enables man to see things differently and rightly. If we limit ourselves to learning passages by heart and classifying them mechanically — and teach men likewise — then we fall into a basic error which simply makes us fail to teach and make known the patristic way of life and philosophy.”
― Hymn of Entry: Liturgy and Life in the Orthodox Church
These we must make part of our being and our lives, as truths and as standpoints, to leaven the whole. And at the same time we must put our whole self into studying the Fathers, waiting and marking time. This marriage, this baptism into patristic study brings what we need, which is not an additional load of patristic references and the memorizing of other people's opinions, but the acquisition of a new clear-sighted sense which enables man to see things differently and rightly. If we limit ourselves to learning passages by heart and classifying them mechanically — and teach men likewise — then we fall into a basic error which simply makes us fail to teach and make known the patristic way of life and philosophy.”
― Hymn of Entry: Liturgy and Life in the Orthodox Church
“Pray without ceasing on behalf of other men...For cannot he that falls rise again?”
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