tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57064925143658189732024-03-14T02:14:43.777-04:00NEW MYRIOBIBLONAn Orthodox Christian Website of Book ReviewsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706492514365818973.post-70346833654828817502023-07-11T12:35:00.010-04:002023-07-11T12:42:52.991-04:0039 - Book Review: "Christ, Our Way and Our Life: A Presentation of the Theology of Archimandrite Sophrony" by Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou <div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKFd15WqVnBe58_E9rYscoYQztM31WHeSk_M_Y9Iqcj-N8aO2AQ4U4vxjtIITumNgpPSH08opf9nk7JM_Q1Vj9XCZy6Tl1CRLulQsn0drwDzReXv42QGEgmQE8L8gCelVxC60rrDzWSsGaAWl7NDkmRjp0Vt7cF6Be_qeHWqDkoYXcC8ei8WGmPwoB9LU/s1089/CHRIST-OUR-WAY-cover-front_-700x1089.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1089" data-original-width="700" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKFd15WqVnBe58_E9rYscoYQztM31WHeSk_M_Y9Iqcj-N8aO2AQ4U4vxjtIITumNgpPSH08opf9nk7JM_Q1Vj9XCZy6Tl1CRLulQsn0drwDzReXv42QGEgmQE8L8gCelVxC60rrDzWSsGaAWl7NDkmRjp0Vt7cF6Be_qeHWqDkoYXcC8ei8WGmPwoB9LU/w412-h640/CHRIST-OUR-WAY-cover-front_-700x1089.jpg" width="412"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <b>Christ, Our Way and Our Life: </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>A Presentation of the Theology of Archimandrite Sophrony</b><br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br>By Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou <br><br>Published by Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist, 2012, pp. 368. <br><br>Book Reviewed (from the Greek text) by:<br>Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou<br>(<a href="https://essexmonastery.com/bookshop/christ-our-way-and-our-life/">source</a>)<br><br>Translated by John Sanidopoulos</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou, with whom we have known each other for twenty-five years, with a strong and sincere friendship, who is a monk at the Honorable Forerunner Monastery in Essex, England, sent me some time ago his first book, which he published, titled "A Presentation of the Theology of Elder Sophrony", and which is an extension of the thesis he submitted to the Theological School of the University of Thessaloniki.<br><br>The day I received the book, I immediately recognized it in the mass of mail, opened it, and read its prologue. I was deeply moved, because he referred to the theology of the late Father Sophrony, a great Elder of our time, whom I enjoyed for about twenty years, through his theological books, co-liturgizing with him at the Holy Altar, personal conversations and the unique live communication that I had with him in the Sacred Monastery of the Honorable Forerunner during the summer months. But I considered it "sacrilege" to study this book among the various activities I was involved in and immediately wrote a letter to announce its receipt. Among other things I wrote:<br><br><span></span></div></div><a href="https://www.newmyriobiblon.com/2023/07/39-book-review-christ-our-way-and-our.html#more"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706492514365818973.post-13027205644529060212022-12-13T13:13:00.006-05:002022-12-13T13:13:34.274-05:0038 - Book Review: "The Asia Minor Catastrophe: 50 Questions and Answers" by Angelos Syrigos and Evanthi Hatzivasiliou<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVPaJPT5nzsm4TRaF2AlOngNhlRHeg5Sp_Hn8dxr2giVxp5lqQkJh2UDbKRQzKMa_bH_yxdoLxWmVulNJ-M1rTcA5QdAw-VF_4tRky-FWGvoD0q416f54i4kH6Zt4EKNlFZIbqDlkxSCG-pJ4fqPztSldYOJlJOrw_gtKsv9QWDlSVTVhT5j31vKYN/s870/asia%20minor.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="870" data-original-width="591" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVPaJPT5nzsm4TRaF2AlOngNhlRHeg5Sp_Hn8dxr2giVxp5lqQkJh2UDbKRQzKMa_bH_yxdoLxWmVulNJ-M1rTcA5QdAw-VF_4tRky-FWGvoD0q416f54i4kH6Zt4EKNlFZIbqDlkxSCG-pJ4fqPztSldYOJlJOrw_gtKsv9QWDlSVTVhT5j31vKYN/w271-h400/asia%20minor.jpg" width="271"></a></div><br></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black;">Μικρασιατική Καταστροφή, 50 ἐρωτήματα καί ἀπαντήσεις</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black;"> </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>The Asia Minor Catastrophe: 50 Questions and Answers</b><br><br>By Angelos Syrigos and Evanthi Hatzivasiliou<br><br>Published by <span style="color: black;">Pataki</span>, 2022, pp. 255. <br>(<i>Currently only available in Greek.</i>)<br><br>Book Reviewed by:<br>Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou<br>(<a href="http://parembasis.gr/index.php/el/menu-teyxos-313/7447-2022-313-01">source</a>)<br><br>Translated by John Sanidopoulos</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">We are passing through the hundredth year since the Asia Minor Catastrophe and many events are taking place commemorating those events, with a responsible evaluation, so that it turns out to be a positive event for all of us.<br><br>Already last year (2021) we celebrated the anniversary of two hundred years since the beginning of the 1821 revolution, which was full of victories and defeats, tensions and peace, sorrows and joys. However, the Asia Minor Campaign and Catastrophe offers us only sorrows, it is a trauma, not only in our historical memory, but also in our historical body itself.<br><br><span></span></div></div><a href="https://www.newmyriobiblon.com/2022/12/38-book-review-asia-minor-catastrophe.html#more"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706492514365818973.post-17531529584710807792021-05-14T13:14:00.015-04:002021-05-14T17:24:49.947-04:0037 - Book Review: "Patristic and Scholastic Theology and Their Environment" by Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos<div style="text-align: center;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyarFuUta1gcnGGQsS_Nz_T35czMSKUbXzggi7FjLJZkqHw3rT58BV6naiCSihJSBzu0mXAad3vxIzqGqOJRdMyOfHsI1DuiACRAYAVuPaWzGzvJnUce54Vjk-bhuAuOg8GZj6iVR5sBA/s640/02_40.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="434" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyarFuUta1gcnGGQsS_Nz_T35czMSKUbXzggi7FjLJZkqHw3rT58BV6naiCSihJSBzu0mXAad3vxIzqGqOJRdMyOfHsI1DuiACRAYAVuPaWzGzvJnUce54Vjk-bhuAuOg8GZj6iVR5sBA/w271-h400/02_40.jpg" width="271"></a></div><br></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Πατερική και Σχολαστική Θεολογία και το Περιβάλλον τους: </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Με βάση τις προφορικές παραδόσεις του π. Ιωάννου Ρωμανίδη<br><br>Patristic and Scholastic Theology and Their Environment: </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Based on the Oral Traditions of Fr. John Romanides</b><br><br>By Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou<br><br>Published by Monastery of the Nativity of the Theotokos (Pelagia), 2021, pp. 672. <br>(<i>Currently only available in Greek.</i>)<br><br>Book Reviewed by:<br>Petros Pitsiakkas<br>Philologist - M.Ed. - Director of the 2nd Lyceum of Nafpaktos <br>(<a href="https://parembasis.gr/index.php/el/menu-teyxos-297/6819-2021-04-21">source</a>)<br><br>Translated by John Sanidopoulos<br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The new book of His Eminence the Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou Mr. Hierotheos, <i>Patristic and Scholastic Theology and Their Environment</i> with the subtitle "Based on the Oral Traditions of Fr. John Romanides", offers an analysis of the meeting of Orthodox theology with modern religious and ideological movements. It is a book that presents, on the one hand, patristic theology, which is empirical and is based on the revelation of God to the Prophets, Apostles and Fathers, which highlights the great value of Orthodox theology and, on the other hand, the scholastic theology of the west, which deviates from prophetic, apostolic and patristic theology by relying on philosophy and tries to understand God by reason.<br><br><span></span></div><a href="https://www.newmyriobiblon.com/2021/05/37-book-review-patristic-and-scholastic.html#more"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706492514365818973.post-18837936032240396012021-04-23T17:04:00.013-04:002021-04-24T01:44:46.051-04:0036 - Book Review: "The 'Model Kingdom' and the Great Idea: Aspects of the National Problem in Greece (1830-1880)"<div style="text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8D9LkIm51CiVnG9B782BFJfcZ-JhFyVmt-IYu9eS7syHXHnrqJzZWN1OVv4o69Cs9hBLyBlfEE-0rMh0w9mUxTZzv4AeF5Qqs0bWu2movfqpG9jCKttfdobXQ4kKLt_oEVf9SFWuYeLM/s650/protypo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8D9LkIm51CiVnG9B782BFJfcZ-JhFyVmt-IYu9eS7syHXHnrqJzZWN1OVv4o69Cs9hBLyBlfEE-0rMh0w9mUxTZzv4AeF5Qqs0bWu2movfqpG9jCKttfdobXQ4kKLt_oEVf9SFWuYeLM/w434-h640/protypo.jpg" width="434"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Το "Πρότυπο Βασίλειο" και η Μεγάλη Ιδέα<br><br>The "Model Kingdom" and the Great Idea:<br>Aspects of the National Problem in Greece (1830-1880)</b><br><br>By Elli Skopetea<br><br>Published by Polytepo in Greece, 1988, pp. 456. </div><div style="text-align: center;">(Currently only available in Greek.)<br><br>Book Reviewed by: <br>Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou </div><div style="text-align: center;">(<a href="https://www.parembasis.gr/index.php/el/menu-teyxos-97/2652-2004-97-01">source</a>)<br><br>Translated by John Sanidopoulos<br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">With the title <i>The "Model Kingdom" and the Great Idea</i> and the subtitle <i>Aspects of the National Problem in Greece (1830-1880)</i>, Elli Skopetea has written an amazing book, which is a mirror of the era after the liberation of Greece from the Turkish yoke.<br><br>This is the doctoral dissertation of the author, the purpose of which is "to record and, as far as possible, to codify the perceptions about the Greek nation and its 'destiny', as they were formed in Greece during the first decades of its independence" (p. 13). The author relied first on the press of the time, then on the periodical press and then on the eponymous major scholars "but with emphasis on those points that connect them to the minor ones, and not those that distinguish them" (p. 15).<br><br><span></span></div><a href="https://www.newmyriobiblon.com/2021/04/36-book-review-model-kingdom-and-great.html#more"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706492514365818973.post-15603909266794755232021-03-03T14:19:00.004-05:002021-03-31T16:56:24.970-04:0035 - Book Review: "Eastern Christendom: A Study of the Origin and Development of the Eastern Orthodox Church" by Nicolas Zernov<div style="text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRMO7aYfsOF0CsaoJtJqyehKtnChDQN0JigWh-G-FLDsSCfhlu6e3fLiCpf9TNnJAsx1l5N-8GYmO-jnaJGVfA_2yeswklnlv5m6NhBT-4gVd2p831gpqZ21ecZDcEWm-vyNqwdMc8XMw/s324/zernov.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRMO7aYfsOF0CsaoJtJqyehKtnChDQN0JigWh-G-FLDsSCfhlu6e3fLiCpf9TNnJAsx1l5N-8GYmO-jnaJGVfA_2yeswklnlv5m6NhBT-4gVd2p831gpqZ21ecZDcEWm-vyNqwdMc8XMw/w248-h400/zernov.jpg" width="248"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 83.3333px; top: 297.096px; transform: scaleX(1.1294);">Eastern Christendom: </span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 83.3333px; top: 297.096px; transform: scaleX(1.1294);">A Study of the Origin and Development of the Eastern Orthodox </span><span style="left: 83.3333px; top: 318.763px; transform: scaleX(1.10608);">Church</span></span></span></b> <br><br>Published by G.P. Putnam and Sons, New York, 1961, 326 pages.<br><br>By Nicolas Zernov<br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>Reviewed by Georges Florovsky</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Slavic Review</i>, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Dec., 1965), p. 745-747.</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Unless they are written by great masters, books of such wide scope and compass are seldom based on original research and scrutiny of primary sources. On the other hand, authors of such comprehensive surveys in their dependence upon the critical assessment by others of source material must be well acquainted with the contemporary state of scholarship in the field. To write such a survey, especially for the ordinary reader, who is usually unable to check the reliability of what is presented to him, is a difficult and responsible task. The book of Dr. Zernov is no more than a compilation; nevertheless he often allows himself to pass judgment on controversial issues and to offer sweeping generalizations which call for resistance from scholars.<br><br><span></span></div><a href="https://www.newmyriobiblon.com/2021/03/35-book-review-eastern-christendom.html#more"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706492514365818973.post-86389515082050562182021-02-18T13:31:00.005-05:002021-02-18T13:31:39.718-05:0034 - Three Scorching Reviews in One: Fr. George Florovsky Reviews Three Introductory Books on Orthodox Christianity <div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUadf2qZtg8xNJAdxVj7f1ACmLon6m8fosG9xhJ-aThqrAnEATl_D281uqEtjS0n02ITshqJEJqV0unlv5_Zh4O9fkacr0hsv3p3KikB-1JpE91AyLtRuEjQ5f3MT3iGnuANa-oHZ-t1Q/s498/schmemann.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="281" data-original-width="498" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUadf2qZtg8xNJAdxVj7f1ACmLon6m8fosG9xhJ-aThqrAnEATl_D281uqEtjS0n02ITshqJEJqV0unlv5_Zh4O9fkacr0hsv3p3KikB-1JpE91AyLtRuEjQ5f3MT3iGnuANa-oHZ-t1Q/w400-h226/schmemann.jpg" width="400"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>KONRAD ONASCH, <i>Einfiihrung in die Konfessionskunde der orthodoxen Kirchen</i>. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1962. Pages 291, 24. <br><br>GEORGE H. DEMETRAKOPOULOS, <i>Dictionary of Orthodox Theology: A Summary of the Beliefs, Practices, and History of the Eastern Orthodox Church</i>. With an introduction by John E. Rexine. New York: Philosophical Library, 1964. Pages xv, 187. <br><br>ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN, <i>The Historical Road of Eastern Orthodoxy</i>. Translated by Lydia W. Kesich. New York, Chicago, and San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. Pages viii, 343. </b><br><br>All of these three books are intended for the ordinary reader seeking an introduction to a new and unfamiliar field. This is the most difficult kind of book to write. The exposition must be clear and well focused. One has to concentrate on the essentials and to delineate the distinctive features of the matter.<br><br><span></span></div><a href="https://www.newmyriobiblon.com/2021/02/34-three-scorching-reviews-in-one-fr.html#more"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706492514365818973.post-32720683403888701172021-02-10T16:11:00.007-05:002021-02-10T16:18:29.277-05:0033 - Book Review: "Nicholas Berdyaev: An Introduction to His Thought" by George Seaver<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsOhvVHGV3o1opSaoK5EgX28Cyvr_o7BGZo15bPyXrmcsWgSs0TD2csNkvp840RXUDjf-EQQPEuOu-snsSiTRDrg2vaE-vtO4P9LVvQONS5L3K66pbNjWq99rxsapM7QRK4ErsS9RNICY/s400/berd.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="298" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsOhvVHGV3o1opSaoK5EgX28Cyvr_o7BGZo15bPyXrmcsWgSs0TD2csNkvp840RXUDjf-EQQPEuOu-snsSiTRDrg2vaE-vtO4P9LVvQONS5L3K66pbNjWq99rxsapM7QRK4ErsS9RNICY/w298-h400/berd.jpg" width="298"></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Nicholas Berdyaev: An Introduction to His Thought</b> <br><br>Published by Harper & Bros., New York, 1951, 122 pages.<br><br>By George Seaver</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>Reviewed by Georges Florovsky</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Journal of Religion</i>, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Apr., 1951), p. 152.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> <br>Mr. Seaver's enthusiasm for Berdyaev admirably qualified him for the task of interpreter. His presentation is vigorous and concise. He added but few comments of his own. Criticism did not belong to the scope of his work, nor had he probably much to say against Berdyaev, except on some minor points. "It was the mission of Berdyaev to rescue the religious consciousness of Christendom from this alienation of spirit from Spirit, by establishing the faith on the rock of personal experience and not on the sands of dogma" (p. 14). And this "mission" is traced back to the tradition of the Eastern church of Europe. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span></span></div></div><a href="https://www.newmyriobiblon.com/2021/02/32-nicholas-berdyaev-introduction-to.html#more"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706492514365818973.post-43386425113292314262021-01-26T16:28:00.001-05:002021-01-26T16:36:25.794-05:0032 - Book Review: "The Orthodox Church. Its Past and Its Role in the World Today" by John Meyendorff<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcv39squ1hQ-j7jJ-IyvKyb8mxINVJXRsknyZGTxlwci7o5L8uYVHwl-fi8W2Yl4Q32rlS8S4InnGDs2JZzVIG2sMf3YB5Ar-GsSHcqRVcxKoA4kY1Qt5LNnAzjNJNRQAREAIHH93BIpY/s1116/mey.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1116" data-original-width="1116" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcv39squ1hQ-j7jJ-IyvKyb8mxINVJXRsknyZGTxlwci7o5L8uYVHwl-fi8W2Yl4Q32rlS8S4InnGDs2JZzVIG2sMf3YB5Ar-GsSHcqRVcxKoA4kY1Qt5LNnAzjNJNRQAREAIHH93BIpY/w400-h400/mey.jpg" width="400"></a></div><br></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>The Orthodox Church. Its Past and Its Role in the World Today</b> <br><br>Published by Pantheon Books, 1962, 244 pages.<br><br>By John Meyendorff</div><div style="text-align: center;">Translated from the French by John Chapi <span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 16.2833px; left: 391.2px; top: 878.698px; transform: scaleX(1.05587);"></span><br><br>Reviewed by Georges Florovsky</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Russian Review</i>, Vol. 22, No. 3 (July, 1963), pp. 322-324.<i><br></i></div> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">This book was first published in French (Editions du Seuil, Paris, 1960) and was addressed to the French reader. The English translation is welcome. The book is well written, in a quiet and sober manner, with a competent knowledge of facts and a true grasp of problems. But to write a popular book is a difficult task and a most demanding art. It is impossible, indeed, to say much on a few pages, and for that reason it is imperative not only to say just the important things, but also to say all important things. Since the author is a Church historian by profession, it was quite natural that he chose the historical way of presentation. It is proper that he began his survey from the beginning, from Apostolic times. The basic emphasis of the Orthodox is precisely on the continuity with the Early Church. As brief as the survey inevitably is, it is fairly done. And yet, for the sake of that general reader for whom the book is primarily intended, one should voice certain cautions.<br><br><span></span></div><a href="https://www.newmyriobiblon.com/2021/01/32-book-review-orthodox-church-its-past.html#more"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706492514365818973.post-4392200874492033462021-01-12T15:02:00.006-05:002021-01-12T15:21:03.381-05:0031 - Book Review: "The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church" by Vladimir Lossky<div style="text-align: center;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOZ_nXX5dooNOyyMBkoFiyAroZFxmfUm0K8pgzzX7c09n8aNGuqKaz0fwqk53Mf5aGNgmWp3yq-FDSNjivZPveFg7ggUzJDv5kQVzr4yApsGv-NtXHiMItvwcCvQKzwFw3TMs0-Oub3HQ/s2048/lossky.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOZ_nXX5dooNOyyMBkoFiyAroZFxmfUm0K8pgzzX7c09n8aNGuqKaz0fwqk53Mf5aGNgmWp3yq-FDSNjivZPveFg7ggUzJDv5kQVzr4yApsGv-NtXHiMItvwcCvQKzwFw3TMs0-Oub3HQ/w300-h400/lossky.jpg" width="300"></a><b> <br></b></div></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church</b> <br><br>Published by James Clark & Co., London, 1957, 252 pages.<br><br>By Vladimir Lossky<br><br>Reviewed by Georges Florovsky</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Journal of Religion</i>, Vol. 38, No. 3 (Jul., 1958), pp. 207-208.<br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The author of this book died recently in Paris. One reads the book as a theological testament of the author. In fact, it is not a new book. It was first published in French in 1944 (<i>Essai sur la thdologie mystique de l'eglise d'Orient</i> [Paris: Aubier]) and at that time was reviewed and discussed. Yet it kept its urgency and freshness. It is a provocative and stimulating book. In a sense, it is an essay in what can be described as a "neo-patristic synthesis." The author expounds the thoughts of the Greek Fathers and wants to be faithful to their spirit, but he does it as a "modern man," who has passed through the school of modern philosophy and is well acquainted with the challenge of the "modern mind." He confines himself strictly to the Eastern tradition and probably exaggerates the tension between the East and the West even in the Patristic period. A "tension" there obviously existed, as there were "tensions" inside the "Eastern tradition" itself, e.g., between Alexandria and Antioch. But the author seems to assume that the tension between the East and the West, e.g., between the Trinitarian theology of the Cappadocians and that of Augustine, was of such a sharp and radical character as to exclude any kind of "reconciliation" and overarching synthesis. It would be more accurate to say that such a synthesis has never been accomplished or even has not been thoroughly attempted. Even if we admit, as we certainly must, that the Trinitarian theology of Augustine was not well known in the East, up to the late Middle Ages, Augustine's authority had never been seriously questioned in Byzantium even in the times of Patriarch Photius. It is therefore unsafe to exclude his contribution from the Patristic heritage of the "Undivided Church." One should be "ecumenical" rather than simply "oriental" in the field of Patristic studies. One has to take into account the whole wealth of the Patristic tradition and wrestle impartially with its intrinsic variety and tensions. <br><br><span></span></div><a href="https://www.newmyriobiblon.com/2021/01/31-book-review-mystical-theology-of.html#more"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706492514365818973.post-83417887001575718932020-12-05T02:28:00.000-05:002020-12-05T02:28:24.668-05:0030 - Book Review: "The Eastern Schism: A Study of the Papacy and the Eastern Churches During the XIth and XIIth Centuries" by Steven Runciman<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4kx4YDlfvcNSvS3iKF6fPJy7O3bmdJC7_pwq_LKkBYgZH-JTga-0Sda5wSCdRCH9t4u0fnoPsCgAnLcpZ-LgpP_uPmSEUr8hntZ6WSSmSXvPb2tzYCFics3jfLts172H1aYmR1mN3sv0/s500/eastern.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="332" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4kx4YDlfvcNSvS3iKF6fPJy7O3bmdJC7_pwq_LKkBYgZH-JTga-0Sda5wSCdRCH9t4u0fnoPsCgAnLcpZ-LgpP_uPmSEUr8hntZ6WSSmSXvPb2tzYCFics3jfLts172H1aYmR1mN3sv0/w265-h400/eastern.jpg" width="265"></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>The Eastern Schism: <br>A Study of the Papacy and the Eastern Churches During the XIth and XIIth Centuries</b><br><br>Published by Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1955, 190 pages.<br><br>By Steven Runciman<br><br>Reviewed by Georges Florovsky <br><i>Church History</i>, Volume 26, Issue 2, June 1957, pp. 181-182. <br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The break between Byzantium and Rome was probably the major tragedy in the history of Christendom. It is inaccurate and misleading to speak of the Eastern Schism. The term suggests that there was "One Church," from which the East broke away, at a certain date, or rather was breaking away gradually and persistently. It is precisely what the West finally came to believe. It is natural that the East finally took the opposite view and came to believe that there was actually a "Western Schism." Strangely enough, both views are accurate and correct, from the historical point of view. What actually happened was the disruption of Unity, and both "separated" parts of Christendom are, in a certain sense, "schisms." In any case, it is so from the purely historical point of view. In spite of all tensions and divergences, conspicuous and provocative as they might have been, the Christian world in the XIth century was still "one world," and people both in the West and in the East, did firmly believe in this "unity." There was still "one universe of discourse," much as its scope and character might have been already obscured on both sides. Paradoxically, it was precisely this presupposition of "unity" that precipitated the "schism." The Western "Drang nach Osten," of which the Crusades were the most spectacular expression, was inspired precisely by this basic conviction that the "Christian World" was one, and consequently had to be "united" and "unified."<br><br><span></span></div><a href="https://www.newmyriobiblon.com/2020/12/30-book-review-eastern-schism-study-of.html#more"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706492514365818973.post-55847509307935946922020-10-22T15:43:00.000-04:002020-10-22T15:43:38.016-04:0029 - Book Review: "Supernatural Horror in Literature" by H.P. Lovecraft<div style="text-align: center;"><b> </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEiSrsli9IqwqsAnxom2RNZdzNZ9syNy3rY6V737Wtv9jC-XZmQcvDcKTgiFQj5zROZJvL95ixrh6o7HIYySp3buplw8OqT-a5VKVBbb70focMrju_3gq6Xisno8jfXyh2mFzbjei5IVw/s474/51VEHBVCANL._SX301_BO1%252C204%252C203%252C200_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="303" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEiSrsli9IqwqsAnxom2RNZdzNZ9syNy3rY6V737Wtv9jC-XZmQcvDcKTgiFQj5zROZJvL95ixrh6o7HIYySp3buplw8OqT-a5VKVBbb70focMrju_3gq6Xisno8jfXyh2mFzbjei5IVw/w256-h400/51VEHBVCANL._SX301_BO1%252C204%252C203%252C200_.jpg" width="256"></a><b> <br></b></div></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature</b><br><br>Published by Hippocampus Press, New York, 2000, 172 pages.<br><br>By H.P. Lovecraft<br>Edited with Introduction and Commentary by S.T. Joshi<br></div><div style="text-align: left;"> <br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), the most important American supernaturalist since Poe, has had an incalculable influence on all the horror-story writing of recent decades. Although his supernatural fiction has of late been enjoying an unprecedented fame, it is still not widely known that he wrote a critical history of supernatural horror in literature that has yet to be superseded as the finest historical discussion of the genre, titled Supernatural Horror in Literature. This extraordinary work is presented in this volume in its final, revised text, annotated with a helpful Introduction and Commentary and Bibliography.<br><br><span></span></div><a href="https://www.newmyriobiblon.com/2020/10/29-book-review-supernatural-horror-in.html#more"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706492514365818973.post-49341297469287151132020-09-19T14:21:00.016-04:002020-09-19T14:34:57.270-04:0028 - Book Review: "Christian Apology" by St. Athanasios Parios<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjFZVDFk9Be-gqQpPILRWmmQwrvS4BTvwUJtkVU5bk0wMyxDKS-mUYX6Q9ilH7lGj6ScuZUJh1Gzl-6dsPKHvT0UrhNQXt7elvUWpkHw6BPZiCSIQEMsNRvx75CBrSEVNUNhhLPCGo7Aw/s703/apologia-in.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="703" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjFZVDFk9Be-gqQpPILRWmmQwrvS4BTvwUJtkVU5bk0wMyxDKS-mUYX6Q9ilH7lGj6ScuZUJh1Gzl-6dsPKHvT0UrhNQXt7elvUWpkHw6BPZiCSIQEMsNRvx75CBrSEVNUNhhLPCGo7Aw/w285-h400/apologia-in.jpg" width="285"></a></div><br><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span class="SpellE">Ἀπολογία</span> Χριστιανική (Christian Apology)<br></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></span>
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="SpellE">Published by</span> Γρηγόρη, Athens, 2015, 312 pages.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></span>
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">By Saint Athanasios Parios<br></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></span>
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Reviewed by John Sanidopoulos</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">First published in 1798, the <i>Christian Apology</i> of St. Athanasios Parios (+ 1813) is published with this translation for the first time in Modern Greek (which will hopefully be soon translated into English), with a helpful Introduction by the late Protopresbyter Fr. George Metallinos.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">St. Athanasios was one of the leaders of the Kollyvades Movement, which originated on Mount Athos in the 18th century as an effort to restore traditional Orthodox practices and opposed unwarranted innovations. His books are mostly a patristic approach written to answer specific needs and challenges of his time, for the benefit and education of the Orthodox flock.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></div><a href="https://www.newmyriobiblon.com/2020/09/28-book-review-christian-apology-by-st.html#more"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706492514365818973.post-70966877243801648622020-07-06T16:02:00.001-04:002020-07-06T16:26:04.609-04:0027 - Book Review: "Columbus & Cortez, Conquerors for Christ"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX0XmeKhJ2IgaPeJZV2zykTCwuiJ8nWmrPHZU-RJm_UunDJs3PuhFCjrmmvfw3LD2xO8JtlAwFBrlgwKbWDs47fd2SEBnLKiDPS25EWRe_a0C3-YX1e6oNVhx5ScdlkPxo75JdoFVuOPU/s1600/518FHWWC10L._SX290_BO1%252C204%252C203%252C200_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="292" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX0XmeKhJ2IgaPeJZV2zykTCwuiJ8nWmrPHZU-RJm_UunDJs3PuhFCjrmmvfw3LD2xO8JtlAwFBrlgwKbWDs47fd2SEBnLKiDPS25EWRe_a0C3-YX1e6oNVhx5ScdlkPxo75JdoFVuOPU/s400/518FHWWC10L._SX290_BO1%252C204%252C203%252C200_.jpg" width="246"></a></div><br>
<div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Columbus & Cortez, Conquerors for Christ</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;">New Leaf Press, 1992, 304 pages.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;">By John Eidsmoe</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Reviewed by John Sanidopoulos</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
<div style="text-align: justify;">Did Christopher Columbus exploit the people of America – or did he evangelize them? Did Hernando Cortez subjugate the people of Mexico – or did he liberate them?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">These are two of the questions posed by John Eidsmoe, a U.S. Reserve Air Force Lt. Colonel, who serves as a law professor at Faulkner University. <i>Columbus & Cortez, Conquerors for Christ</i> counters what Eidsmoe terms “the assault on Western culture” by media elites and liberal scholars on American university campuses. Eidsmoe surmises that this attack on culture is in actuality an attack on values – the biblical values upon which our nation was founded.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div></div><a href="https://www.newmyriobiblon.com/2020/07/27-book-review-columbus-cortez.html#more"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706492514365818973.post-44868940073354503912020-05-23T16:07:00.003-04:002020-05-23T16:07:33.785-04:0026 - Book Review: "History of the Byzantine State"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0vrtBDX95u4eMhJaiY9etKRE5_KuAwNFVThHYTOiPOsytnH9tel3JDm6VuEUlQlS_ktic5dA3YIKK0NmEEMAGTkGFmO1MQPXgSLEL5zbiR0OT9gSsDYZMuPzVfOviDClKuq-bqXeM1D4/s1600/ostr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="333" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0vrtBDX95u4eMhJaiY9etKRE5_KuAwNFVThHYTOiPOsytnH9tel3JDm6VuEUlQlS_ktic5dA3YIKK0NmEEMAGTkGFmO1MQPXgSLEL5zbiR0OT9gSsDYZMuPzVfOviDClKuq-bqXeM1D4/s400/ostr.jpg" width="267"></a></div><br>
<div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>History of the Byzantine State</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;">New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 1957. 543 pp.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;">By George Ostrogorsky</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Reviewed by Georges Florovsky,<br>
Harvard Divinity School</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> Church History: </i><br>
<i>Studies in Christianity and Culture</i></div><div style="text-align: center;">(Volume 28, Issue 1 March 1959, pp. 96-97)</div><br>
<div style="text-align: justify;">This book by Professor Ostrogorsky, of Belgrade University, needs no lengthy introduction. Since its first appearance in 1940, in German, it has been commonly acknowledged as a standard manual in the field. The text has been revised several times by the author, for edition in German, French, and English, and brought up to date. In the present American edition a fine selection of illustrations is added, arranged by Professor Charanis, in cooperation with Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, and also a new set of historical maps. The book is elegantly produced.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><a href="https://www.newmyriobiblon.com/2020/05/26-book-review-history-of-byzantine.html#more"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706492514365818973.post-25288128345730577132020-04-27T15:35:00.002-04:002020-04-27T16:12:54.078-04:0025 - Book Review: "The Life of General Makriyannis: Memoir and History"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcqIZtMEmPuzeNbLufJwS8FOTaoLBWX48Ff9ZVoLD2PT1xpLIxHmAYKv_B3Aa5Wu9NjIig2AY3LET6gQqhtcIi8vLzDSa3sJZtKefugtpcKXy4SXI5OLKaiNePVAGV4UMrOex6r3pF7Uw/s1600/makri.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="318" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcqIZtMEmPuzeNbLufJwS8FOTaoLBWX48Ff9ZVoLD2PT1xpLIxHmAYKv_B3Aa5Wu9NjIig2AY3LET6gQqhtcIi8vLzDSa3sJZtKefugtpcKXy4SXI5OLKaiNePVAGV4UMrOex6r3pF7Uw/s400/makri.jpg" width="281"></a></div><br>
<div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Ο Bίος του στρατηγού Μακρυγιάννη: Αποµνηµόνευµα και Ιστορία</i><br>
("The Life of General Makriyannis: Memoir and History")</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Athens: Vivliorama, 2012. 549 pp.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;">By Νikos Theotokas</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Reviewed by Eleni Andriakaina</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Historein</i></div><div style="text-align: center;">(2014, Vol. 14)</div><br>
<div style="text-align: justify;">The publication of Nikos Theotokas’ study comes at a critical juncture in contemporary Greece. Neither the book’s modest title, nor the pastness of its object, seem to have much relevance for the fierce urgencies of the present or even for the challenges – methodological, theoretical or institutional problems – now facing Greek scholars within the humanities and the social sciences. How then can we explain the appeal of the book to a wide readership within and beyond academia? And why the numerous and enthusiastic reviews it has received? One explanation lies in the long-lasting and enduring significance of Makriyannis’ writings for modern constructions of Greek identity. Makriyannis’ name evokes a past still present and still contested: the foundational event for modern Greece – the 1821 revolution. But the specific contribution of Theotokas’ book is also significant, since it powerfully challenges a range of current orthodoxies.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><a href="https://www.newmyriobiblon.com/2020/04/25-book-review-life-of-general.html#more"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706492514365818973.post-61080359438964516202020-02-27T15:21:00.000-05:002020-02-27T15:22:43.517-05:0024 - Book Review: "From Monastery to Hospital: Christian Monasticism and the Transformation of Health Care in Late Antiquity"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijMQPcTLOGOPT54xeZhS7oJtKHsZ2-WH6zr0LOkAWYvYg7hogYoeTisVrOaBR-BgCltqfAKZb8aptJYQ1C1Jl_ymvclg-XLcJ-fOEKUrKIkUxOfsqxU9_UqoROrZynZAi0CDMDaQMJ1_c/s1600/hospital.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="314" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijMQPcTLOGOPT54xeZhS7oJtKHsZ2-WH6zr0LOkAWYvYg7hogYoeTisVrOaBR-BgCltqfAKZb8aptJYQ1C1Jl_ymvclg-XLcJ-fOEKUrKIkUxOfsqxU9_UqoROrZynZAi0CDMDaQMJ1_c/s400/hospital.jpg" width="252"></a></div><br>
<div style="text-align: center;"><b>From Monastery to Hospital: <br>
Christian Monasticism and the Transformation of Health Care in Late Antiquity</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;">University of Michigan Press, 2005, pp. 235.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;">By Andrew T Crislip</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Reviewed by P E Pormann</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Cambridge Journals of Medical History</div><div style="text-align: center;">(2007 Jan 1; 51(1): 130–131)</div><br>
<div style="text-align: justify;">The quest for the first hospital in history has occupied the minds of many scholars, especially since Timothy S Miller published his controversial book <i>The Birth of the Hospital in the Byzantine Empire</i> in 1985 (reprinted 1997). Crislip's present monograph, based on his doctoral dissertation, contributes to this debate. His main argument runs approximately as follows.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><a href="https://www.newmyriobiblon.com/2020/02/book-review-from-monastery-to-hospital.html#more"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706492514365818973.post-30639819217051599802020-01-14T15:15:00.007-05:002020-01-14T16:01:58.804-05:0023 - Book Review: "The Life of Saint Basil the Younger: Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of the Moscow Version"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKqXxdpDY-S6ARxcMXalXdpkxzL35Jmr3aTbQr2ehfhJYNMWTuq5F2wUKMzRbIR9WqIIN9l_qFIQsLpX_X4JO3PBG44Cnhhp7Alc0d1zI7TafUAeeJ_dFwv0euS5OUJJc5L0UMgrjBF1c/s1600/basil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="347" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKqXxdpDY-S6ARxcMXalXdpkxzL35Jmr3aTbQr2ehfhJYNMWTuq5F2wUKMzRbIR9WqIIN9l_qFIQsLpX_X4JO3PBG44Cnhhp7Alc0d1zI7TafUAeeJ_dFwv0euS5OUJJc5L0UMgrjBF1c/s400/basil.jpg" width="278" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><b>The Life of Saint Basil the Younger</b>: </div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of the Moscow Version</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">By Denis F. Sullivan, Alice-Mary Talbot and Stamatina McGrath</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Dumbarton Oaks Studies, 45</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Reviewed by Andrew Louth </div><div style="text-align: center;">(Durham University)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Journal of Ecclesiastical History</i></div><div style="text-align: center;">(Volume 67, Issue 3, July 2016 , pp. 629-630)</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><i>The Life of Saint Basil the Younger</i> (or <i>the New</i>) is a probably tenth-century <i>vita</i> that became enormously popular in Eastern Orthodox circles in the Middle Ages: twenty-two Greek manuscripts are known to survive, plus a further thirteen in demotic Greek; there are also medieval translations into Slavonic languages. Its popularity is not connected with any cult of the saint (indeed it is not clear if he was a historical figure at all), but rather the result of two visions, disclosed to and related by the author of the <i>vita</i> (who himself may be fictional), which take up nearly two-thirds of the text. It is the first vision that is particularly important, especially for popular Orthodox beliefs about the afterlife: it contains the most detailed account of the so-called aerial "tollhouses" (<i>telonia</i>), twenty-one in number, through which the departed soul has to pass after death. At each tollhouse, the soul is examined in respect of a series of sins, beginning with slander and ending with heartlessness and cruelty, demons accusing, angels defending. The vision concerns Theodora, a slave woman who looked after the saint, which she relates in the vision to reassure Gregory, the author, as to her fate. In her case, it is evident from the beginning that she will make it through the tollhouses, assisted not only by her acts of kindness, but by "spiritual gold" provided by the saint from his abundant virtue. Once the soul has passed the tollhouses, it is introduced to the other world, passing through the gates of heaven and visiting the abodes of the saints and the patriarchs, as well as making a visit to Hades. The soul then settles in the "place of repose": it is remarked that this takes place forty days after the soul has been separated from the body in death. This period of time, therefore, corresponds to the period during which services of prayer (<i>Trisagion</i>, <i>Pannykhida</i>) for the deceased take place - on the third, ninth and fortieth day - though in the <i>vita</i> it is only the fortieth day that is remarked. The notions set forth in colourful detail in the vision can be traced back to the fourth or fifth century, the treatise corresponding most closely to the account of the <i>Life of St Basil</i> immediately after the Mother of God, seems to me to reflect the anaphora of the Byzantine rite. These are, however, scarcely even blemishes in a painstakingly careful edition.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706492514365818973.post-24785719298317253262019-09-27T15:21:00.004-04:002019-09-27T15:21:44.741-04:0022 - Book Review: "Christian Thought from Erasmus to Berdyaev"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqG3ajgqXHEgM4JUFgSwX8RskJe-tJJ6phlNbpjD-l-L_mVj2bY73fY2DumeYLKJz6pjdu-cUnFMHBoaKuMJBicxkf_ZE3e3Fm0MIy1ZODFc3qPL8vz_4eJsRNz57dxK88s6Iv7R8spLk/s1600/1004417.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="159" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqG3ajgqXHEgM4JUFgSwX8RskJe-tJJ6phlNbpjD-l-L_mVj2bY73fY2DumeYLKJz6pjdu-cUnFMHBoaKuMJBicxkf_ZE3e3Fm0MIy1ZODFc3qPL8vz_4eJsRNz57dxK88s6Iv7R8spLk/s400/1004417.jpg" width="300"></a></div><br>
<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Christian Thought from Erasmus to Berdyaev</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;">By Matthew Spinka,</div><div style="text-align: center;">Englewood Cliffs, N. J., Prentice-Hall, 1962. 246 pp.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Reviewed by Georges Florovsky,</div><div style="text-align: center;">Harvard Divinity School</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Church History</i>,</div><div style="text-align: center;">Volume 31, Issue 4</div><div style="text-align: center;">December 1962 , pp. 470-471</div><br>
<div style="text-align: justify;">In the preface to his new book Dr. Spinka acknowledges his debt to Nicholas Berdyaev. Berdyaev has helped him to find the way between liberalism and Karl Barth. The pattern of interpretation is derived from Berdyaev. "The Era is dying: let it die!" The Era of Humanism has come to its end. The new synthesis is not yet available. We are in the stage of crisis, of critical transition, of desperate search. It is in this perspective that Dr. Spinka narrates the story of Christian thought in modern times - up to Berdyaev! His selection of topics or of sign-posts in this adventure is fair and judicious. His exposition of individual systems is competent and reliable. One can but welcome the inclusion of Russian thinkers in the general survey of the history of Christian thought. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><a href="https://www.newmyriobiblon.com/2019/09/22-book-review-christian-thought-from.html#more"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706492514365818973.post-38315015783358426202019-08-29T12:31:00.004-04:002019-08-29T12:31:44.648-04:0021 - Book Review: "The Church Impotent: The Feminization of Christianity"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9GGadVaJIE6giB323ztO0qUBk1KcpVUpZ9OJFmu-k0p5Tn9yyk2LaRjWkghKkflrQ4bBoVSwI7n-1I7Y23DbsuQrm_j9g8oZEaEsoUtdFO6CilaombrWfdwcb0kwHHnZABiogJFwZIP0/s1600/church+impotent.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="291" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9GGadVaJIE6giB323ztO0qUBk1KcpVUpZ9OJFmu-k0p5Tn9yyk2LaRjWkghKkflrQ4bBoVSwI7n-1I7Y23DbsuQrm_j9g8oZEaEsoUtdFO6CilaombrWfdwcb0kwHHnZABiogJFwZIP0/s400/church+impotent.jpg" width="246"></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>The Church Impotent:<br>
The Feminization of Christianity</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;">By Leon J. Podles</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Reviewed by Fr. Geoffrey Korz</div><br>
<div style="text-align: justify;">In the age of political correctness, one has become accustomed to reading about gender issues, at all levels. From campaigns to increase the number of women in legislatures, to special science programs for girls, to treatises condemning the dominance of patriarchy in religion, revolutionary feminism has succeeded in capturing the North American mind. In the process, it has also captured the North American political, social, and religious reality, and affected major changes in the landscape in which we live.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><a href="https://www.newmyriobiblon.com/2019/08/21-book-review-church-impotent.html#more"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706492514365818973.post-969363090031760602019-07-19T16:58:00.002-04:002019-09-27T14:39:44.690-04:0020 - Book Review: "The Patriarch Nicephorus of Constantinople. Ecclesiastical Policy and Image Worship in the Byzantine Empire"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0kUKXjHYyO0m7MS-L4_W8UBlGWeiDV0Pawv82YVQUsyDOZATu6CEguX7HZ3PCR0wzkWaKsL_dOGaGz1_Vf60AjYOOL9Eiq3FLnCeoNoeh-jQocyBU65DLyhlLvZVwlwQb6GUi-AhVoBc/s1600/nicephorus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="461" data-original-width="300" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0kUKXjHYyO0m7MS-L4_W8UBlGWeiDV0Pawv82YVQUsyDOZATu6CEguX7HZ3PCR0wzkWaKsL_dOGaGz1_Vf60AjYOOL9Eiq3FLnCeoNoeh-jQocyBU65DLyhlLvZVwlwQb6GUi-AhVoBc/s400/nicephorus.jpg" width="260"></a></div><br>
<div style="text-align: center;"><b>The Patriarch Nicephorus of Constantinople <br>
Ecclesiastical Policy and Image Worship in the Byzantine Empire</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;">By Paul J. Alexander, </div><div style="text-align: center;">Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1958. 287 pp.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Reviewed by Georges Florovsky, </div><div style="text-align: center;">Harvard Divinity School</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Church History</i>, </div><div style="text-align: center;">Volume 28, Issue 2</div><div style="text-align: center;">June 1959, pp. 205-206</div><br>
<div style="text-align: justify;">This book was conceived as an essay in the history of the Iconoclastic Controversy. The aim of the author was to define the role played by Nicephorus in the struggle and his contribution to the theology of Icons. The main merit of the book is in the use of the unpublished work of Nicephorus, <i>Refutatio et Eversio</i>, which, as Professor Alexander rightly observes, is a kind of <i>summa</i> of the whole controversy. In the Appendix to the book a summary of this treatise is given, with a few passages in translation (242-262). It is gratifying to learn that a critical edition of the original text is in preparation (X). The present book is better documented than another recent study on the same subject by Dr. A.J. Viser, <i>Nikephoros und ber Bilderstreit</i>, 1952.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><a href="https://www.newmyriobiblon.com/2019/07/20-book-review-patriarch-nicephorus-of.html#more"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706492514365818973.post-61640427413722186582019-06-26T12:37:00.003-04:002019-06-26T12:37:29.412-04:0019 - Book Review: "Athonite Flowers" by Monk Moses of Mount Athos<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBj89nN6okEzJYmCLf_mLO1YfqnsU28hoFQGlY6UTInpGrqy36NZWKstCcxEE6AWQZ6MU0t1FEMgF8F8KcuvdxUmWHn7WYvoO8jnFDyVQJw4_fgpzEUhfimu_Bh8IP211YPRETcta2rP8/s1600/ATHONITE+FLOWERS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="324" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBj89nN6okEzJYmCLf_mLO1YfqnsU28hoFQGlY6UTInpGrqy36NZWKstCcxEE6AWQZ6MU0t1FEMgF8F8KcuvdxUmWHn7WYvoO8jnFDyVQJw4_fgpzEUhfimu_Bh8IP211YPRETcta2rP8/s400/ATHONITE+FLOWERS.jpg" width="260"></a></div><br>
<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Athonite Flowers: Seven Contemporary Essays on the Spiritual Life</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">By Monk Moses of Mount Athos</div><div style="text-align: center;">Translated by Fr. Peter A. Chamberas</div><div style="text-align: center;">Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Press</div><div style="text-align: center;">2000, Pp. 100.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Reviewed by Constantine Cavarnos</div><br>
<div style="text-align: justify;">This beautiful and very edifying book is comprised of seven essays. All of them will serve, as Father Peter Chamberas aptly remarks in his eloquent Foreword, "as a testimony to the ever vibrant and ever rejuvenating spiritual tradition of Mount Athos, a bastion of Christian Orthodoxy." They will serve also as a testimony that their author, the monk Moses, "is not only a contemporary representative of this spiritual tradition, but also an eloquent and dynamic exponent of it throughout Greece."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><a href="https://www.newmyriobiblon.com/2019/06/19-book-review-athonite-flowers-by-monk.html#more"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706492514365818973.post-20920236005655236442019-05-24T11:37:00.002-04:002019-05-24T11:49:44.146-04:0018 - Book Review: "Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO-SGf7MfqmWxWMH2bcMVctRvNj4mVATPqLvafTKbJl_1Fi1n0_uzmezWh6mhBHr7n8QQqqNw15J3dOVzgnZ3PNiEGT1aXXiNxfibtEFYAFoPIIU4jGtlGyMscjW4-q1p4tE-q1sKOKH4/s1600/best.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="331" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO-SGf7MfqmWxWMH2bcMVctRvNj4mVATPqLvafTKbJl_1Fi1n0_uzmezWh6mhBHr7n8QQqqNw15J3dOVzgnZ3PNiEGT1aXXiNxfibtEFYAFoPIIU4jGtlGyMscjW4-q1p4tE-q1sKOKH4/s400/best.jpg" width="265"></a></div><br>
<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;">By Brian Raftery </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Reviewed by John Sanidopoulos</div><br>
<div style="text-align: justify;">When it comes to movies, 1999 was a pivotal year for me. I suddenly found myself going to the movies not only every weekend, but often more than once a week. Before 1999, I would only go to the movies either to watch something I was really interested in, or because I had nothing else to do, and movies were always an enjoyable alternative. Though my interest in film greatly grew towards the end of 1998, 1999 cemented my growing interest. At the time I thought I merely had a sudden awakening to a reality I never understood before, in addition to the fact that I had just recently graduated college, became married and moved to a new and less exciting city. But over time I realized that there was something special about movies and the year 1999. I had not fully understood it until I recently picked up the book <i>Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen</i> by Brian Raftery.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><a href="https://www.newmyriobiblon.com/2019/05/18-book-review-best-movie-year-ever-how.html#more"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706492514365818973.post-38195201023970042382019-04-03T12:51:00.000-04:002019-08-29T12:28:42.649-04:0017 - Book Review: "The Socialist Phenomenon" by Igor Shafarevich<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9AzeEWgGWGD3pzG1zRq9vZ-Guh0Pt7LHtMGIJwrR6oW5UPp1JmS-1CWwK0kB9lc9RzygP4nFOdys5dW2jdZ4XQ81zMkHoMNZyger5o56q1nmL2-FFi5chzXzMRi78awA9tpPla1KOd8E/s1600/91pQe0n3cTL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1047" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9AzeEWgGWGD3pzG1zRq9vZ-Guh0Pt7LHtMGIJwrR6oW5UPp1JmS-1CWwK0kB9lc9RzygP4nFOdys5dW2jdZ4XQ81zMkHoMNZyger5o56q1nmL2-FFi5chzXzMRi78awA9tpPla1KOd8E/s400/91pQe0n3cTL.jpg" width="262"></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>The Socialist Phenomenon</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;">By Igor Shafarevich</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Reviewed by John Sanidopoulos</div><br>
<div style="text-align: justify;">I first read about this book some years ago in the Harvard lecture of Alexander Solzhenitsyn titled <i>A World Split Apart</i>, where he says:<br>
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<blockquote>It is almost universally recognized that the West shows all the world a way to successful economic development, even though in the past years it has been strongly disturbed by chaotic inflation. However, many people living in the West are dissatisfied with their own society. They despise it or accuse it of not being up to the level of maturity attained by mankind. A number of such critics turn to socialism, which is a false and dangerous current.<br>
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I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having experienced applied socialism in a country where the alternative has been realized, I certainly will not speak for it. The well-known Soviet mathematician Shafarevich, a member of the Soviet Academy of Science, has written a brilliant book under the title <i>Socialism</i>; it is a profound analysis showing that socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death. Shafarevich's book was published in France almost two years ago and so far no one has been found to refute it. It will shortly be published in English in the United States.</blockquote></div><a href="https://www.newmyriobiblon.com/2019/04/17-book-review-socialist-phenomenon-by.html#more"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706492514365818973.post-40425151701690289412019-01-26T13:27:00.001-05:002019-01-26T13:40:08.833-05:0016 - Book Review: "Christology of the Later Fathers"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuOfcEBLccKJrgWHmhls33YlZ7tDOQkDNAkNa692aodRQVHMFo9TLcxkrwdLRkiW1enzoYICaeRX-QSPHUbDsDmLsi0b9H5EqJ0_T7bVcN7PqLeTQ4NaaviQ24xpbt7CvDCDyk9DPqOhs/s1600/4241522_1_ftc_dp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="696" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuOfcEBLccKJrgWHmhls33YlZ7tDOQkDNAkNa692aodRQVHMFo9TLcxkrwdLRkiW1enzoYICaeRX-QSPHUbDsDmLsi0b9H5EqJ0_T7bVcN7PqLeTQ4NaaviQ24xpbt7CvDCDyk9DPqOhs/s400/4241522_1_ftc_dp.jpg" width="259"></a></div><br>
<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Christology of the Later Fathers</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">Volume 3 of Library of Christian Classics</div><div style="text-align: center;">Edited by Edward Rochie Hardy</div><div style="text-align: center;">Westminster John Knox Press, 1954</div><div style="text-align: center;">400 pages</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Reviewed by Georges Florovsky</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology</i></div><div style="text-align: center;">Volume 9 (2): 1 – Apr 1, 1955</div><br>
<div style="text-align: justify;">The new volume of the Library of Christian Classics will be warmly welcome especially by Seminary teachers. It will be used as a handy source book in the class on the history of Christian doctrine. Most of the documents included in the volume were already available in English translations, but the huge volumes of the renowned collection - recently reprinted - <i>The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers</i> - were not easy to be handled by the students. Now, in the volume under review, we have a good selection of the most important texts, to which the editor supplied an admirable and helpful introduction.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><a href="https://www.newmyriobiblon.com/2019/01/17-book-review-christology-of-later.html#more"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706492514365818973.post-57343192352706518732019-01-17T17:01:00.003-05:002019-02-01T10:48:59.894-05:0015 - Book Review: "For the Sake of the World: The Spirit of Buddhist and Christian Monasticism" by Patrick G. Henry and Donald K. Swearer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK5yUQhpIKX31R6fy4ctV-mg0rq5bj7gvTB0wR4ko9k6dZ6qYCgzdi1p5cd94L83cdfQVFZoQ8glxXHVTyG0zijKgOQ0rLoTc5GzE4zO7Aoi2ELDlxr7NL6TYU455CCj6vQyHllCr2ok8/s1600/for+the+sake.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="314" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK5yUQhpIKX31R6fy4ctV-mg0rq5bj7gvTB0wR4ko9k6dZ6qYCgzdi1p5cd94L83cdfQVFZoQ8glxXHVTyG0zijKgOQ0rLoTc5GzE4zO7Aoi2ELDlxr7NL6TYU455CCj6vQyHllCr2ok8/s400/for+the+sake.jpg" width="252"></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>For the Sake of the World: The Spirit of Buddhist and Christian Monasticism</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;">By Patrick G. Henry and Donald K. Swearer</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Reviewed by John S. Romanides</div><br>
<div style="text-align: justify;">The authors of this valuable and interesting book understand "contemplation" and an "urge for transcendence" to be a basic similarity between Buddhist and Christian monasticism. This is true for Augustinian neo-Platonism, which is the position adopted by this book as normative for the Christian monastic tradition.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">However, the Augustinian synthesis between neo-Platonism and the Bible was never accepted in the East, and was rejected in the West by both Celtic and Gallo-Roman monasticism. It did not, finally, take hold in Merovingian Gaul; this is why St. Gregory of Tours, an admirer of Sts. Basil and John Cassian, never mentions Augustine. That is to say, such Gallo-Romans as Sts. Martin of Tours, Aridius, Patroclos, and the Lombard Stylite Vulfailac belong to the same biblical tradition as the fathers in the East. In 529 Emperor Justinian closed the Platonic school of Athens, and when Augustine's writings became known in the East he was dropped from the list of "fathers of the church," as these were understood there.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br>
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