I have very specific, if subjective, meanings for book ratings.
⭐: I did not finish this, or wouldn't start it. ⭐⭐: I finished this, but I sort of regret it. ⭐⭐⭐: I don't regret finishing this, but I'll probably never read it again. ⭐⭐⭐⭐: It's likely I will reread this. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐: I want to own this to read whenever the mood strikes, because I'll definitely reread it.
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The Ladder of Divine Ascent, or Ladder of Paradise (Κλίμαξ; Scala or Climax Paradisi), is an ascetical treatise for …
In the scenic Scottish village of Kirkcudbright, no one is disliked more than the painter Sandy Campbell. When he is …
"Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of …
In the scenic Scottish village of Kirkcudbright, no one is disliked more than the painter Sandy Campbell. When he is …
"Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. …
Purchased, so now it's going into "Want to Read"
St Maximus the Confessor (c. 580-662) beautifully expounds the meaning of the Divine Liturgy in On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy, which …
St Maximus the Confessor (c. 580-662) beautifully expounds the meaning of the Divine Liturgy in On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy, which …
The complete charm, wit and humor of A. A. Milne’s classic is completely realized in this unabridged recording. Join Rabbit, …
This unique work—no other work yet available in English treats this subject—illustrates the contribution of these Councils in the development …
This unique work—no other work yet available in English treats this subject—illustrates the contribution of these Councils in the development …
This unique work—no other work yet available in English treats this subject—illustrates the contribution of …
The Patriarch [of Constantinople] exhorted the bishops [at the Second Council of Nicaea] to brevity, but in vain, for the ensuing discussions were to prove long and verbose, at an intellectual level far below preceding councils.
— The First Seven Ecumenical Councils (325–787) by Leo Donald Davis (Theology and Life, #21) (Page 308)
The complete charm, wit and humor of A. A. Milne’s classic is completely realized in this unabridged recording. Join Rabbit, …
This unique work—no other work yet available in English treats this subject—illustrates the contribution of …
For Maximus [the Confessor] the Incarnation was the central factor in man's deification: "that the whole people might participate in the whole God, and that in the same way in which soul and body are united, God should become partakable of by the soul, and, that by the soul's intermediary, by the body, in order that the soul might receive an unchanging character and the body immortality; and finally that the whole man should become God, deified by the grace of God becoming man, becoming whole man, soul and body, and becoming whole God, soul and body, by grace." Thus Christ is the meeting point of God's reaching out to mankind and of mankind's God-given tendency toward the divine.
— The First Seven Ecumenical Councils (325–787) by Leo Donald Davis (Theology and Life, #21) (Page 271 - 272)
As a monk, in disobedience to his superior, Nicetas left the monastery and closed himself in a cell. Because of his disobedience, God permitted great temptations to befall him. Once, when Nicetas was at prayer, the devil appeared to him undeer the guise of a radiant angel and said to him: "Do not pray anymore, but rather read books and I will pray for you!" Nicetas obeyed, ceased to pray, and began to read books.
— The Prologue of Ohrid: Lives of the Saints, Hymns, Reflections and Homilies for Every Day of the Year by St. Nikolai Velimirovic, T. Timothy Tepsić, Bishop Maxim, and 2 others (Page 129)
