Suggested Reading List
Resources
for Enquirers
- Ware, Bishop Kallistos, The Orthodox Church,
Penguin Books.
- Mathews-Green, Frederica, Facing East,
Harper Books.
- Mathews-Green, Frederica, At the Corner
of East and Now, Tarcher/Putnam.
- Farley, Donna, Seasons of Grace,
Conciliar Press.
- Coniaris, Anthony, Introducing the Orthodox Church, Light and Life Press.
- AGAIN Magazine, Conciliar Press.
- The Handmaiden Journal, Conciliar
Press.
Resources
for Catechumens
- Ware, Bishop Kallistos, The Orthodox Way,
SVS Press.
- Schmemann, Alexander, For the Life of
the World, SVS Press.
- Carlton,
Clark, The Truth, Regina
Press.
- Hopko, Thomas, The Orthodox Faith,
Vols. 1-4, OCA-DRE.
- Schmemann, Alexander, Great Lent, SVS
Press.
- Schmemann, Alexander, Of Water and the
Spirit. SVS Press.
- Farley, Lawrence, A Daily Calendar of Saints, Light
and Life Press.
- Aslanoff, Catherine, The Incarnate God, Vols. 1-2, SVS Press.
Resources
for the Faithful
- Bloom, Anthony, Living Prayer, Libra Books.
- Bloom, Anthony, School for Prayer,
Libra Books.
- Wybrew, Hugh, The Orthodox Liturgy,
SPCK.
- Schmemann, Alexander, The Historical
Road of Eastern Orthodoxy, SVS Press.
- Meyendorff, John, Marriage: An Orthodox
Perspective, SVS Press.
- Bajis, Jordan,
Common Ground, Light and Life Press.
- Clendenin, Daniel. ed., Eastern Orthodox
Theology: A Contemporary Reader, Baker Books.
- Payne, Robert, The Fathers of the
Eastern Church, Dorset Press.
- Payne, Robert, The Fathers of the
Western Church, Dorset Press.
- Ward, Benedicta, tr., Sayings of the
Desert Fathers, Cistercian Press.
- Lossky, Vladimir, The Mystical Theology
of the Eastern Church, SVS Press.
- Anon.,The Way of the Pilgrim, SVS
Press.
The Fathers are an indispensable part
of one's spiritual reading. Easily accessible collections are:
- The Ladder of Divine Ascent, as well as
others in in the Classics of Western Spirituality series.
- The Apostolic Fathers, Baker Books.
- The Philokalia: the Complete Text,
Faber and Faber.
- Also, the series on the Fathers, published
by SVS Press (such as St. John Chrysostom, On Wealth and Poverty).
These books may be purchased online at Orthodox Goods.Com.