This is the Handbook of the British Orthodox Fellowship. It has been published to help you experience something of the Orthodox faith
and life of the British Orthodox Church whether you are a member... More > of the British Orthodox Church, or of some other Christian community.
Fundamentally, it is only by experiencing Orthodox faith and life for yourself that you will gain a personal appreciation of its power to transform the lives of British people.
The British Orthodox Fellowship exists to support individuals as well as small groups. You may pray the prayers in this volume on your own, or you may be part of a small community of other enquirers who pray them together. Some of these praying communities may eventually become the
nucleus of future British Orthodox churches, whilst others will remain as British Orthodox Fellowship groups, allowing members to pray
Orthodox prayers, and experience something of the transforming power of Orthodox Christianity and Spirituality.< Less
This collection of articles and papers on Orthodox Christology reflects the many years of study and research which the author has conducted. Father Peter Farrington is a priest of the British... More > Orthodox Church within the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate. Many of these articles have been published in the official journal of the Church. Each one provides an introduction to some aspect of Orthodox Christology, or an insight into some area of Orthodox history and tradition. These articles have been drawn together to produce a convenient collection of materials which are directed at an intelligent Orthodox laity.< Less
This collection of articles and papers on Orthodox Christology reflects the many years of study and research which the author has conducted. Father Peter Farrington is a priest of the British... More > Orthodox Church within the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate. Many of these articles have been published in the official journal of the Church. Each one provides an introduction to some aspect of Orthodox Christology, or an insight into some area of Orthodox history and tradition. These articles have been drawn together to produce a convenient collection of materials which are directed at an intelligent Orthodox laity.< Less
St Isaac the Syrian, or of Nineveh, is almost unique in being venerated as a saint, and spiritual authority by both the Oriental and Eastern Orthodox communions, even though he was a member of the... More > Church of the East, and
therefore formally considered heterodox. The great value of his spiritual writings have spoken for themselves and he remains a great favourite among the modern spiritual fathers of both Orthodox communities.
This volume contains a collection of his spiritual writings translated into English by A.J. Wensinck.< Less
This collection of selected letters of Severus, Patriarch of Antioch, between 512 and 518, and perhaps the greatest theologian of the Oriental Orthodox communion, are presented here to promote the... More > mutual understanding of all Orthodox Christians and to further the efforts towards reconciliation between the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches.< Less
St Cyril of Alexandria is one of the greatest Fathers of the 5th century, well known for his contributions to the Christological debates concerning Nestorius. This collection of some of his important... More > Christological and controversial works contains some of his most well known texts, such as 'That Christ is One', his writings against Nestorius, and his Scholia on the Incarnation.
This volume also contains fragments fron his writings against Theodore, Diodore and the Synousiasts.
This translation of these writings by St Cyril of Alexandria was first published in 1881 and was translated by P.E. and E.B. Pusey.< Less
In this first paper in the Occasional Paper series, A. Mingana provides the text and translation, accompanied by a critical apparatus, of an apocryphal story dealing with the flight of the holy... More > family into Egypt and the life which it led in that country. The story is cast in the mould of a vision of the Virgin Mary and entitled the Vision of Theophilus, who was Patriarch of Alexandria in A.D. 385-412. Of all the Patriarchs of that great city he is probably the one who showed more zeal in the destruction of pagan temples and monuments.< Less
The Kebra Nagast, or the Book of the Glory of Kings, is an account written in Ge'ez of the origins of the Solomonic line of the Emperors of Ethiopia. The text, in its existing form, is at least seven... More > hundred years old, and is considered by many Ethiopian Christians to be an inspired and a reliable account. Not only does it contain an account of how the Queen of Sheba met Solomon, and about how the Ark of the Covenant came to Ethiopia with Menelik I, but contains an account of the conversion of the Ethiopians from the worship of the sun, moon, and stars to that of the "Lord God of Israel".< Less
These prayers of the British Orthodox Church within the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate are taken from the Coptic Orthodox Agpeya, or Book of Hours. These are the same texts as published in the existing... More > edition, but in a handy pocket book format.< Less
This very interesting work was composed by Bar Salibi, the famous Syrian bishop of the 12th century. It is in the form of a long address to a certain Rabban 'Isho', a West Syrian monk of some... More > importance, who had evidently shown some leniency towards the Melchites, and was about to leave, or had already left, his own community to join them. He had written a long letter to Bar Salibi on this subject, and it is this lost letter that has given birth to the present treatise. Bar Salibi analyses verbatim his opponent's missive, and refutes it. Within the ten chapters of his refutation he deals with many interesting topics such as the form of the Trisagion, of making the sign of the cross, and of liturgical tradition.< Less
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