Instructions: Please follow general guidelines as given on the Syllabus and pick one work to review for each assignment (2).  These books are not on reserve at our Library so they are on a first come, first serve basis.  Some of the classic works maybe accessed on line through my web page if you follow the links for Readings, otherwise books may need to be purchased.  Also, in the case of some writers listed below there are other translations which you may read (Basil of Caesarea, both Gregorys, etc.).  Finally, if you have already read one of the books on the list for another class, you may not choose it for review.          

Bibliography of Writing Assignment Options

Anatolios, Khaled. Athanasius: The Coherence of His Thought. London: Routledge, 1998.

*Basil the Great.  On the Holy Spirit.  Popular Patristics Series.  Translation by David Anderson.  Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2001. 

Cyril of Alexander.  On The Unity of Christ.  Translated by John Anthony McGuckin.  Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2000.

John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent.  The Classics of Western Spirituality.  Mauwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1982.  

Evagrius of Pontus.  The Greek Ascetic Corpus.  Translated with an introduction and commentary by Robert E. Sinkewicz.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

*Gregory of Nazianzus.  On God and Christ: the Five Theological Orations and the Two Letters to Cledonius. Popular Patristics Series.  Tanslated by Frederick Williams. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2002. 
(The Five Theological Orations) 

Gregory of Nyssa.  The Life of Moses. Classics of Western Spirituality.  Translated by E. Ferguson  and A. J. Malherbe.  London,1979. 

Harakas, Stanley S. Wholeness of Faith and Life: Orthodox Christian Ethics. Brookline, Massachusetts: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 1999. Part One or Two.

John of Damascus.  Three Treatises on the Divine Images. Popular Patristics Series.  Translated by Andrew Louth.  Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2003.

Keating, Daniel A. The Appropriation of Divine Life in Cyril of Alexandria. Oxford Theological Monographs. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Lossky, Vladimir.  In the Image And Likeness of God.  Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Press, 1985. 

Louth, Andrew. St John Damascene: Tradition and Originality in Byzantine Theology. Oxford Early Christian Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Louth, Andrew ed. Maximus The Confessor.  The Early Church Fathers.  London and New York: Routledge, 1996.  An Introduction to and translation of Maximus' works. 

Pseudo-Macarius.  The Fifty Spiritual Homilies and the Great Letter.  The Classics of Western Spirituality.  Translated, edited with an introduction by George A. Maloney, S.J.  Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1992.

Mantzaridia, Gregios I.  The Deification of Man:  St Gregory Palamas and the Orthodox Tradition.  Translated by L. Shepherd.  Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Press, 2001. 

Meyendorff, John.  Living Tradition: Orthodox Witness in the Contemporary World.  Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1978.

Palamas, Gregory. The One Hundred and Fifty Chapters. Translated by Robert E. Sinkewicz. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1988.

Palamas, Gregory.  The Triads.  The Classics of Western Spirituality.  Translated by Nicholas Gendle.  Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1983. 

Pseudo-Dionysius. The Complete Works.  The Classics of Western Spirituality.  Translated by Colm Luibheid.  Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1987. 

(“The Divine Names,” “The Mystical Theology,” and “The Celestial Hierarchy”)

Behr-Sigel, Elisabeth.    The Place of the Heart: An Introduction to Orthodox Spiritual.  California, Oakwood Publications, 1992.   

 Staniloae, Dumitru.  Theology and The Church.  Translated by Robert Barringer.  Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1980.

________________. The Experience of God.  Translated and Edited by Ioan Ionita and Robert Barringer. Brookline, MA: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 1994. Volume One or Two.

 ________________.  Orthodox Spirituality: A Practical Guide for the Faithful and a Definitive Manual for the Scholar.  Translated by Arichimandrite Jerome (Newville) and Otilia Kloos.  South Canaan, PA: St. Tikhon’s Seminary Press, 2002. 

Stylianopoulos, Theodore G. The Way of Christ: Gospel, Spiritual Life and Renewal in Orthodoxy. Brookline, Massachusetts: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2002.

 Theodore the Studite.  On the Holy Icons.  Translated by Catharine P. Roth.  Crestwood, NY:  St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2001. 

Thunberg, Lars.  Man and the Cosmos: The Vision of St. Maximus the Confessor.  Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1985.

Ware, Kallistos ed. The Jesus Prayer: A Monk of the Eastern Church.  Crestwood, NY: St. Valaimir's Seminary Press, 1997. 

_______________.  The Orthodox Way.    Crestwood, NY: St. Valaimir's Seminary Press, 1997. 

Williams, A. N. The Ground of Union: Deification in Aquinas and Palamas. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

 Zizioulas, John D.  Being as Communion: Studies on Personhood and the Church.  Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1993. 

 * Any version of this text will be fine.