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Eastern Orthodox Christianity: Books

A guide to researching the churches of the Eastern Orthodox tradition

Select Books about Eastern Orthodoxy

The Orthodox Church: Second Edition by Timothy Ware/ Kallistos Ware
Call Number: Main Stacks BX 106.2 .W3 1997

ISBN: ISBN 0140146563, 9780140146561

One of the best introductions to the Orthodox Church, so a good place to begin.
Byzantium and the Rise of Russia by John Meyendorff
Call Number: Main Stacks DK 67.5.B95 M49 1989

ISBN: 0881410799
Cambridge Companion to Orthodox Christian Theology by Elizabeth Theokritoff and Mary B. Cunningham
Call Number: Main Stacks BX 320.3 .C36

ISBN: 0521864844

Also available as an electronic book via LINUS
Cambridge History of Christianity: Volume 5, Eastern Christianity by Michael Angold, ed.
Call Number: Main Stacks BX 290 .E27 2006

ISBN: 0521811139
The Early Church by Henry Chadwick
Call Number: Main Stacks BR 165 .C48 1993

ISBN: 0140231994
The Eastern Orthodox Church: Its Thought and Life by Ernst Benz
Call Number: Main Stacks BX 320.3 .B4813 2009

ISBN: 0202362981
First Seven Ecumenical Councils by Leo D. Davis
Call Number: Main Stacks BR 203 .D38 1987

ISBN: 0894536168
The Great Church in Captivity by Steven Runciman
Call Number: Main Stacks BX 410 .R8

ISBN: 0521071887
History of Icon Painting by L. Eveseyeva
Call Number: Main Stacks N 8187 .I8713 2005

ISBN: 0955008905
A Long Walk to Church: A Contemporary History of Russian Orthodoxy by Nathaniel Davis
Call Number: Main Stacks BX 492 .D38 2003

ISBN: 0813340675
The Orthodox Church (Denominations in America) by Thomas E. FitzGerald
Call Number: Main Stacks BX 735 .F57 1995

ISBN: 0313262810
Orthodox Study Bible
Call Number: Main Stacks BS 195 .O78 2008

ISBN: 0718003594

Newly translated Old Testament from the Greek text of the Septuagint, including the Deuterocanon.
The Meaning of Icons by Vladimir Lossky and Leonid Ouspensky
Call Number: Main Stacks N 8189.S6 O9713 1982

ISBN: 0913836990
Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent: Faith and Power in New Russia by Carol Garrard
Call Number: Main Stacks BL 65.P7 G37 2008

ISBN: 0691125732
St. Gregory Palamas and Orthodox Spirituality by John Meyendorff
Call Number: Main Stacks BX 395.P3 M42813 1998

ISBN: 0913836117
Theodore the Stoudite: The Ordering of Holiness by Roman Cholij
Call Number: Main Stacks BR 1720.T38 C46 2002

ISBN: 019924846X
The Eastern Churches by Ronald G. Roberson
Call Number: REF BX 103.2 .R63 1999

ISBN: 8872103215

Publication Date: 1999-01-01

Surveys the Eastern Christian churches, including both Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches.

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