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Reading List For Those Interested in The Orthodox Church
Reading List For Those Interested in The Orthodox Church
From: http://thewillardpreacher.com/for-orthodox-and-inquirers/reading-list/
The following is a list of books that many have found to be beneficial. Hopefully it will be added
to from time to time.
The Holy Fathers of Orthodox Spirituality (Part II): How to Read the Holy Fathers
by Father Seraphim Rose
Ecclesiastical History
by Eusebius Pamphilus
Spiritual Life
Counsels From the Holy Mountain: Selected From the Letters and Homilies of Elder Ephraim
St. Anthony’s Greek Orthodox Monastery
Elder Arsenios the Cave-Dweller (1886-1983): Fellow Ascetic of Elder Joseph the Hesychast
by Monk Joseph Dionysiatis
The Illness and Cure of the Soul in the Orthodox Tradition: Metropolitan of Nafpaktos
by Hierotheos
Apostle to Zaire: The Life and Legacy of Blessed Father Cosmas of Grigoriou
by Demetrios Aslandidis and Monk Damascene Grigoriatis
In the Heart of the Desert: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers
by John Chryssavgis
Unseen Warfare
by Theophan the Recluse
edited by Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain
Consoler of Suffering Hearts – The Life, Counsels and Miracles of Eldress Rachel, Visionary of
Russia
Archpriest Sergei Lebedev
On the Mystical Life – The Ethical Discourses (Vol. 1): The Church and the Last Things
St. Symeon the New Theologian
Hymns on Paradise
St. Ephrem the Syrian
The Discourses
St. Symeon The New Theologian
Becoming Orthodox
Becoming Orthodox
by Peter E. Gillquist
Non-Orthodox Writings
Orthodoxy
by G.K. Chesterton
Mere Christianity
by C.S. Lewis
Screwtape Letters
by C.S. Lewis
Miracles
by C.S. Lewis
A Grief Observed
by C.S. Lewis
The Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
There is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind
by Antony Flew
Black Like Me
by John Howard Griffin