This classic description of the glories and temptations of the priesthood retains its practical relevance and power down to the present day.

Included is a sketch of St. Symeon`s life and times, together with an extensive discussion of his thought, particularly against its background in the ascetical, mystical and theological literature of the Christian East prior to the 10th Century.

This classic works reveals the importance of hesychasm as elaborated by St. Gregory Palamas from the desert fathers to the Russian monastic saints of the nineteenth century.

Appearing for the first time in English this book contains the fourth through the fifteenth treatise of St Symeon`s on the subject of dispassion or freedom from sinful passion as well as faith, love, poverty, grace, redemption of time, and ascetic retreat.

Selections from the letters between the Cappodocian Fathers: Basil, Gregory and Gregory. They reveal much of their personal qualities, beliefs and ministry.

A good translation of a very great book. At a time when it seemed that the Arian heresy was about to overcome Christianity (as indeed it might appear today) St. Athanasius stood against the highly cultivated and sensible clergy of his day to become the hand of God which smashed into fragments this spiritually absurd nonsense.