Studies on Orthodox history, hesychasm, the Russian diaspora, ROCOR, the Philokalia, canonical ruptures, and the living transmission of Tradition.
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Studies on the transmission of Orthodoxy through time: hesychasm, the Russian diaspora, ROCOR, the Philokalia, canonical ruptures, and continuity of Tradition.
A major Romanian episode of twentieth-century hesychasm, where culture, monasticism, and the prayer of the heart meet.
If Moscow bore the wall that restrained lawlessness, what did the Romanian Lands bear? The gate of Christendom, the patronage of the East, and the hearth of prayer.
On the night of 16–17 July 1918, in the cellar of a merchant's house in Ekaterinburg, the last Orthodox tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, was put to death, together with the Empress Alexandra, their four daughters — Olga, Tatiana, Maria,…
Saint Neagoe Basarab, persecuted under three princes, chosen by the people, founder of Curtea de Argeș and Athos benefactor, author of the Teachings.
The life of Gleb (Herman) Podmoshensky, co-founder of Platina: zeal, fall, schism, and prelest through a patristic lens.
Ivan Kireevsky, the Russian critic and philosopher trained under Hegel and Schelling, who found at Optina Monastery the integrality of the mind and the living tradition of the Holy Fathers.
Saint Nikolai Velimirović in America: the exile after Dachau, his ministry at Libertyville and Saint Tikhon’s, the last Liturgy, and his death in prayer.
What is psaltic music, and why do Orthodox parishes sound so different? A history of Byzantine chant, the Oktoechos and Saint John Koukouzelis.
The Bogomoljci movement, the great lay awakening of Serbian Orthodoxy, under Saint Nikolai Velimirović and in continuity with the patristic tradition.
The history of the Burning Bush of Antim Monastery: Sandu Tudor, Father Ioan Kulâghin, the prayer of the heart, Communist imprisonment, and Romanian hesychast legacy.
A careful Orthodox reading of Father Seraphim Rose, his biographies, Platina, hagiography, repentance, and discernment.