On the Church: Select Letters

On the Church: Select Lettersby St. Cyprian of Carthage St. Cyprian, 3rd century Bishop of Carthage, is perhaps the most significant witness to the patristic teaching on the nature and unity of the Church. How is the Church defined? How does one discern who is and is not a legitimate bishop? Do the sufferings of martyrs and confessors sometimes supersede the normal order? These questions are explored in the face of two major challenges: the question of readmission of those who

and what we become in that grace

Published by Leonidas J

A great defender and protector of the Orthodox Faith

particularly in attempting to respond to the distortions of sectarians and those misled by heretical notions

the most senior Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church

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Cyril of Jerusalem

The 2nd edition was reedited and newly typeset

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carefully constructed of passages from Holy Scripture and quotations

Seraphim presents one of the basic traditions of Orthodox teaching on the "afterlife" (concerning which Holy Scripture is remarkably silent

In this volume (a successor to the long out of print New Martyrs under the Turkish Yoke)