need educating: Eastern Orthodox (non-Catholic) resources

I am needing a little eduction here.

In the past I have often seen forum posts about the lack of Catholic and Orthodox resources in Logos. Thanks to this year's valiant efforts by Logos in hiring Andrew Jones and offering these resources among others:

Catholic Library Builder on sale through November 15th for 93% off!
Catholic Scripture Study Library
Catholic Scholar’s Library

we seem to have begun meeting the needs of the Catholic user base.

My question in this thread is prompted by a non-Catholic user commenting on the continuing sparseness of Orthodox resources in Logos. Because of my ignorance of the writings and practices of the Eastern tradition, can somebody give a list of important resources that Logos could publish for the non-Catholic, Eastern Orthodox user base? I am sure many have been posted in threads as suggestions but they are mixed in with other suggestions.

I am hoping to get a list specifically limited to Eastern Orthodox. (I don't even know how to categorize my request. Embarrassed ) Part of my interest is piqued by St. Andrew's Greek Orthodox Church in OKC having their fall festival. A Lebanese co-worker of mine was an active member there. Thanks for responses. MJ? Wink Anyone?

Find more posts tagged with

Comments

MJ. Smith

I am hoping to get a list specifically limited to Eastern Orthodox.

What - you want me to leave out the Assyrian Church?[:S] Note: you won't go wrong with any of the books by these authors

Timothy Ware now Bishop of Diokleia Kallistos is an introductory source:

The Orthodox Way
How to Pray
Philokalia (with others) 4 volumes - essential text

Vladimir Lossky is essential introductory theology:

Orthodox Theology: An Introduction
The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church - a classic on the topic

Alexander Schmemann is a favorite across denominations:

For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy - most loved by evangelicals
The Eucharist Sacrament of the Kingdom: Sacrament of the Kingdom
Introduction to Liturgical Theology - a classic on the topic
Great Lent: Journey to Pascha
Of Water and the Spirit: A Liturgical Study of Baptism

St. Gregory Palamas, the "Augustine" of Orthodoxy:

St. Gregory Palamas and Orthodox Spirituality
by John Meyendorff
The Homilies
The Triads

Scriptural commentaries see:

Theophylacht of Ochrid
Johanna Manley

Other essential titles:

The Power of the Word: In the Worshiping Church
by John Breck
Scripture in Tradition: The Bible and Its Interpretation in the Orthodox Church
by John Breck
The Way of a Pilgrim and The Pilgrim Continues His Way - included in some Buddhist readings lists [:)]
On the Prayer of Jesus
by Ignatius Brianchaninov and Kallistos Ware - or other books on the Jesus Prayer
Paths to the Heart: Sufism and the Christian East
by James Cutsinger
The Art of Prayer: An Orthodox Anthology
by Igumen Chariton

I would expect others to add titles - some of which I'll be embarrassed that I failed to think of.

Matthew C Jones

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/303796#Comment_303796

What - you want me to leave out the Assyrian Church?

Include them too but please identify them as such because I would never know the difference.

I would expect others to add titles - some of which I'll be embarrassed that I failed to think of.

I welcome any additions. No need for embarrassment. You are my go-to person and a virtual walking encyclopedia of non-Western traditions. Thanks!

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/303800#Comment_303800

http://orthodoxinfo.com/inquirers/readlist.aspx
http://www.allsaintsofalaska.ca/index.php/the-orthodox-church/169-a-reading-list-for-lay-people-fr-lawrence-farley
http://www.christthesavioroca.org/files/Reading-List-of-Orthodox-Classics.pdf
http://www.allsaints-stl.org/Orthodox%20Reading%20List.html

These are all lists drawn up by the Orthodox themselves

For the Assyrian Church/Church of the East/Nestorian Church/Eastern Orthodox/Copts ... I know only a very mixed bag - very little that is Scripture study or theological ...

The Church of the East: An Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity by Christoph Baumer and Mar Dinkha
The Church of the East: Apostolic & Orthodox by Mar Bawai Soro
The Patriarchs of the Church of the East: Translated by Youel Baaba by Daniel D. Benjamin
An Introduction to the History of the Assyrian Church by W A Wigram
The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia--and How It Died by Philip Jenkins
Issues in Eucharistic Praying in East and West: Essays in Liturgical and Theological Analysis by Maxwell E. Johnson
Rome and the Eastern Churches by Aidan Nichols
Baptism in the Early Church: History, Theology, and Liturgy in the First Five Centuries - Everett Ferguson
Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East: The Order of the Holy Qurbana According to the Liturgy of Mar Addai and Mar Mari, the Blessed Apostles by Deacon Lawrance Namato
Justinian and the Making of the Syrian Orthodox Church (Oxford Early Christian Studies) by Volker-Lorenz Menze
The Jesus Sutras: Rediscovering the Lost Scrolls of Taoist Christianity by Martin Palmer
The Lost Sutras of Jesus: Unlocking the Ancient Wisdom of the Xian Monks by Ray Riegert and Thomas Moore
Gnosis on the Silk Road: Gnostic Parables, Hymns & Prayers from Central Asia by Hans-Joachim Klimkeit
A History of Nestorian Christianity in China by Yang Sen-Fu
Hidden Treasures and Intercultural Encounters: Studies on East Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia (Orientalia - Patristica - Oecumenica) by Dietmar W. Winkler and Li Tang
A History of Christianity in Asiaby Samuel H. Moffett
Nestorian Missionary Enterprise (Christianity in the Islamic World) by John Stewart
A Study of the History of Nestorian Christianity in China and Its Literature in Chinese: Together With a New English Translation of the Dunhuang ... Studies, Asian and African Studies, 27) by Li Tang
Exegesis and Hermeneutics in the Churches of the East by Vahan S. Hovhanessian
Origin of India's St. Thomas Christians: A historiographical critique by Benedict Vakakkekara
Comparative Christianity: A Student's Guide to a Religion and its Diverse Traditions by Thomas Arthur Russell
History of the World Christian Movement: Earliest Christianity to 1453 by Dale T. Irvin and Scott W. Sunquist
Two Thousand Years of Coptic Christianity by Otto Friedrich August Meinardus
Gnosticism and Christianity in Roman and Coptic Egypt (Studies In Antiquity & Christianity) by Birger Albert Pearson
The Early Coptic Papacy: The Egyptian Church and Its Leadership in Late Antiquity (Popes of Egypt) by Stephen J. Davis

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/303796#Comment_303796

Philokalia (with others) 4 volumes - essential text

Finally this can be updated to 5 volumes ... too late for Super Tramp.

Philokalia Vol. 5 is finally here (almost)

Bruce Dunning

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1088078#Comment_1088078

Finally this can be updated to 4 volumes ... too late for Super Tramp.

Philokalia Vol. 5 is finally here (almost)

First you resurrect a thread with Milford and now with Super Tramp. They were both good people!

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1088087#Comment_1088087

Well, after having resurrected Fred Morgan last week, it did seem appropriate to give some dearly missed people who requested resources they didn't live to see, a bit of appreciation for their efforts.

SineNomine

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1088087#Comment_1088087

They were both good people!

Indeed! Requiescant in pace.