 | Learning Theology With the Church Fathers by Christopher A. Hall
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $9.74 A great introduction to the Early Church Fathers.
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 | The Deification of Man: St. Gregory Palamas and the Orthodox Tradition (Contemporary Greek Theologians Series , No 2) by Georgios I. Mantzaridis
Buy used from: $55.00 This is one of the essential doctrines of Early Christiainity.
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 | The New Oxford Annotated Bible, New Revised Standard Version with the Apocrypha, Third Edition (Hardcover 9700A)
Buy used from: $16.00 This is the best study Bible for your money. Respectful of all Christian Traditions for the past 2000 years, but not uncritical and examines in detail the development of the various canonical books and the essays at the end are great!
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 | The Apologies of Justin Martyr (Ancient Texts and Translations)
Buy new: $24.00 / Used from: $30.90 This is the patron Saint of my parish. His writings are from the early second century, and he helps contribute to the rendering of Christian and Jewish ideas of God in Greek philisophical terms. An amazing early intellectual for the young (primarily peasant) Church.
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 | Ancient & Postmodern Christianity: Paleo-Orthodoxy in the 21st Century--Essays In Honor of Thomas C. Oden
Buy new: $28.00 / Used from: $5.00 A great meditation on the early church wisdom in relation to the Post-Modern generation. I would recomend Brian McLaren's amazing book "A Generous Orthodoxy"
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 | Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture by Professor Jaroslav Pelikan
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $4.49 The great late Jaroslav Pelikan's elegant study of Jesus Christ and the continuing evolution of His role in society.
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 | The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Vol. 2: The Spirit of Eastern Christendom (600-1700) by Jaroslav Pelikan
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $19.44 A great rendering of the development of doctrine in the Eastern Church from the greatest Church Historian of the past one-hundred years.
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 | Three Treatises on the Divine Images (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press Popular Patristics Series) by of Reading John
Buy new: $14.53 / Used from: $6.80 Who is better to explain an essential tennent of the Eastern Church than St John of Damascus, an amazing and eloquent Church Father.
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 | On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ: Selected Writings from St. Maximus the Confessor (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press "Popular Patristics" Series) by Paul M. Blowers
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $13.00 St Maximus the Confessor is essential reading of anyone interested in Early Christian Theology.
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 | Early Christian Doctrines: Revised Edition by J. N. D. Kelly
Buy new: $16.15 / Used from: $3.68 J.N.D Kelly's book is by far the best and most imformative book on the Church's development in the context of 2nd Temple Judaism and the Pagan world. A little dated but important and neccesary nontheless.
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 | On the Incarnation: De Incarnatione Verbi Dei (Popular Patristics Series) by St. Athanasius
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $7.00 What a better book to understand the Incarnation, than the stalwart of orthodoxy, St Athanasius. The introduction by C.S. Lewis alone, makes this worth a purchase.
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 | St. Basil the Great on the Holy Spirit by Saint
Buy new: $11.97 / Used from: $11.94 St Basil offers a simple, yet elaborate and rational approach to the third member of the Trinity, God, The Holy Spirit. It is refreshing to hear such a voice in today's emotional misunderstanding of Him.
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 | The Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Cistercian studies 59)
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $9.94 Some wisdom from the desert. An essential understanding of the Early Church and Orthododxy must not be just theology and history, but the simple and humble wisdom from the Desert Fathers.
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 | For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy by Alexander Schmemann
Buy new: $11.52 / Used from: $12.30 Alexander Schememann offers the best introduction to Sacramental theology today. Drawing from the Liturgy and practice of the Orthodox faith, this book is truly ecumenical in its stance. Thomas Merton claimed "One of the best books I've read in a long time...evry novice should read it twice."
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 | The Way to Nicaea (The Formation of Christian Theology, V. 1) (Vol 1) by John Behr
Buy new: $20.00 / Used from: $15.99 John Behr's masterful study on the theological developments up to the Council of Nicea.
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 | The Nicene Faith: Formation Of Christian Theology, 2 Volume Set (Pt. 1 & 2) by John Behr
Buy used from: $109.06 The second volume of Behr's study.
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