Vitae Patrum

The Vitae Patrum (literally Lives of the Fathers, also called Lives of the Desert Fathers) is an encyclopedia of hagiographical writings on the Desert Fathers and Desert Mothers of early Christianity. The bulk of the original texts date from the third and fourth centuries.[1][2] The Lives that were originally written in Greek were…[Read more]

Evagrius Ponticus (Greek: Εὐάγριος ὁ Ποντικός, Georgian: ევაგრე ქართველი), also called Evagrius the Solitary (345–399 AD), was a Christian monk and ascetic from Heraclea, a city on the coast of Bithynia in Asia Minor. One of the most influential theologians in the late fourth-century church, he was well known as a thinker, polished speaker, and g…[Read more]

Saint Maximos Kausokalybis (Greek: Μάξιμος Καυσοκαλύβης; died 1365 or 1380; also spelled Kafsokalyvis, from “of the burning hut”), also known as St. Maximos the Hut Burner, was a hesychast monk who lived on Mount Athos in Greece. Some of Maximos’ writings on prayer and ascetism are included in the Philokalia.[1]

Maximos lived an austere life, m…[Read more]

Saint Paisius Velichkovsky – Saint Paisius Velichkovsky or Wieliczkowski (Paisie de la Neamţ in Romanian; Паисий Величковский in Russian; Паїсій Величковський in Ukrainian; 20 December 1722 – 15 November 1794) was an Eastern Orthodox monk and theologian who helped spread staretsdom or the concept of the spiritual elder to the Slavic world.[2]…[Read more]

Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov – Saint Ignatius (secular name Dmitry Alexandrovich Brianchaninov, Russian: Дмитрий Александрович Брянчанинов, dmʲitrʲɪɪ̯ ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪd͡ʑ brʲænʲt͡ɕæˈnʲinəf; 1807–1867) was a bishop and theologian of the Russian Orthodox Church. He stands out as one of the greatest Eastern Orthodox patristic writers of the nine…[Read more]

Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov – Saint Ignatius (secular name Dmitry Alexandrovich Brianchaninov, Russian: Дмитрий Александрович Брянчанинов, dmʲitrʲɪɪ̯ ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪd͡ʑ brʲænʲt͡ɕæˈnʲinəf; 1807–1867) was a bishop and theologian of the Russian Orthodox Church. He stands out as one of the greatest Eastern Orthodox patristic writers of the nine…[Read more]

Macarius of Corinth (birth name: Macarius Notaras, Greek: Μακάριος Νοταρᾶς) was born in Corinth in 1731 and died in Chios in April 1805. Macarius as Metropolitan bishop of Corinth, was a mystic and spiritual writer who worked to revive and mostly sustain the Eastern Orthodox Church under Turkish rule. He is most famous for working with Nicodemus…[Read more]

Saint Dorotheus of Gaza

Dorotheus of Gaza (Greek: Δωρόθεος τῆς Γάζης Dorotheos tes Gazes; 505 – 565 or 620,[1]) or Abba Dorotheus, was a Christian monk and abbot.[1] He joined the monastery Abba Serid (or Abba Sveridus) near Gaza through the influence of elders Barsanuphius and John. Around 540 he founded his own monastery nearby and became…[Read more]

The Way of a Pilgrim

The Way of a Pilgrim – Wikipedia

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Autocephaly recognized universally de facto, by some autocephalous Churches de jure:

Thomas Merton OCSO (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist, and scholar of comparative religion. On May 26, 1949, he was ordained to the Catholic priesthood and given the name “Father Louis”.[1][2] He was a member of the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, near B…[Read more]

Monumenta Germaniae Historica – The Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) is a comprehensive series of carefully edited and published primary sources, both chronicle and archival, for the study of Northwestern and Central European history from the end of the Roman Empire to 1500.[1] Despite the name, the series covers important sources for the…[Read more]

The Patrologia Latina (Latin for The Latin Patrology) is an enormous collection of the writings of the Church Fathers and other ecclesiastical writers published by Jacques-Paul Migne between 1841 and 1855, with indices published between 1862 and 1865. It is also known as the Latin series as it formed one half of Migne’s Patrologiae Cursus…[Read more]

Jacques Paul Migne

Jacques Paul Migne was a French priest who published inexpensive and widely distributed editions of theological works, encyclopedias, and the texts of the Church Fathers, with the goal of providing a universal library for the Catholic priesthood.

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Maximus the Confessor (Greek: Μάξιμος ὁ Ὁμολογητής), also known as Maximus the Theologian and Maximus of Constantinople (c. 580 – 13 August 662), was a Christian monk, theologian, and scholar.

In his early life, Maximus was a civil servant, and an aide to the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius. He gave up this life in the political sphere to ent…[Read more]

The Philokalia (Ancient Greek: φιλοκαλία, lit. ’love of the beautiful’, from φιλία philia “love” and κάλλος kallos “beauty”) is “a collection of texts written between the 4th and 15th centuries by spiritual masters”[1] of the Eastern Orthodox Church mystical hesychast tradition. They were originally written for the guidance and instruction of mo…[Read more]

In Christian theology, universal reconciliation (also called universal salvation, Christian universalism, or in context simply universalism) is the doctrine that all sinful and alienated human souls—because of divine love and mercy—will ultimately be reconciled to God.[1] The doctrine has often been rejected by mainstream Christian religion, whi…[Read more]

pocatastasis (/æpoʊkəˈtæstəsɪs/) comes from the Greek word ἀποκατάστασις (apokatástasis) which means reconstitution or restitution.[1] Acts 3:21 speaks of apocatastasis of all things, and although this passage is usually not understood to teach universal salvation,[2] the word apocatastasis is typically used to refer to the belief that everyone…[Read more]

John Scotus Eriugena[a] or Johannes Scotus Erigena[b] or John the Scot (c. 800 – c. 877)[3] was an Irish Catholic Neoplatonist philosopher, theologian and poet of the Early Middle Ages. Bertrand Russell dubbed him “the most astonishing person of the ninth century”. The Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy states he “is the most significant Iri…[Read more]