The Divine Liturgy was first published in Greece in 1982 (by the theological journal ‘Synaxi’) since when it has been continuously in print and there have been four new editions. From 1993 it has been published by the Cell of St John the Theologian, Koutloumousiou Monastery, Mount Athos. This translation into English has been made from the most recent 2006 edition.

In spite of the fact that marriage is recognised as a sacrament by the Church, the attitude of Christian thought towards the sexual relationship has in practice been singularly limited.

Sherrard discusses the ever-present, timeless qualities of beauty, love and miracle through which we can be renewed and transformed, whatever the conditions of the world in which we live.

The author was educated at Cambridge, taught at Oxford University and made his home in Greece.

This book focuses on the central questions that lie at the root of the schism between the Catholic and the Orthodox Churches.