Standing in God's Holy Fire
Subtitle: The Byzantine Tradition (Traditions of Christian Spirituality.)
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: November 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781570753824
Subjects: Spirituality; Eastern Christian Churches; Religion; Religion - Inspirational/Spirituality; Christianity - Orthodox; Devotional; Orthodox Eastern Church; Christianity - Orthodox Churches
First sentence: Byzantium. What an image of exotic beauty and strangeness it connotes.
Description: The Orthodox Byzantine tradition is still often undervalued and misunderstood in the Western Churches. This is a vivid introduction to the leading figures, key themes and values of this living and ancient form of Christian spirituality, which has endured and survived a recent history of systematic persecution. At the centre of the Byzantine experience are ideas which Western Christians share, and from which they still have much to learn: beauty, endurance and hopefulness.