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Patristic Series
Patristic Series
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Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Answers and People by Rev. Vasileios Thermos
Issues connected with sexual orientation and gender identity raise questions for tra- ditional Christian attitudes (and not least Orthodox attitudes) to what it means to be human, for which Scripture and Tradition provide little guidance. Panic ensues and extreme attitudes are adopted without careful consideration of any kind of fact or evidence. In this book Father Vasileios brings his practical experience as a psy- chiatrist and his pastoral experience as a priest to bear on these issues. A wonder- fully accessible, clear, informative, bal- anced, and profound discussion from a Greek Orthodox priest, theologian, and psychotherapist with decades of pastoral and clinical experience, addressing direct- ly the issues of sexuality and gender that touch us all today. This book contains words of wisdom and insight that can help guide us through complex issues.
80 pages; softbound, published in 2019 price $10
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John Chrysostom
on the Roman Empire
A Study on the Political Thought of the Early Church
by Constantine A. Bozinis
During the 20th century, the patristic schol- arship was only able to address the politi- cal thought of John Chrysostom in a piece- meal fashion. The present study constitutes the first systematic attempt to remedy this situation by providing a more all-encom- passing view of the great Church Father’s thinking about public life in Christian an- tiquity. Its first part is devoted to Chrysos- tom’s perception of the relationship be- tween Church and state. His view of his time’s central state authority, the Roman Empire, is carefully reconstructed from se- lect passages in his homiletic corpus. Par- ticular care is taken to highlight the sub- stantial differences between John Chrysostom and Eusebius of Caesarea in- sofar as their attitude toward the Roman Εmpire is concerned; these differences be- come visible primarily in the way that the two ecclesiastical authors make use of the motif of “synchronic parallelism,” that is to say, the temporal coincidence of Jesus’ birth with Octavius Augustus’ autocracy and the spread of the Pax Romana through- out the entire Mediterranean world.
192 pages, softbound, published in 2020 price $25
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