{"id":5341,"date":"2017-02-06T15:09:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T05:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/?p=5341"},"modified":"2017-02-06T15:09:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T05:09:45","slug":"recommended-readings-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/recommended-readings-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Readings List"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Recommended Readings<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<h1>Spiritual<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Conferences (John Cassian)<\/li>\n<li>The Crucified Jesus (Fr. Manasseh Youhanna)<\/li>\n<li>On Marriage and Family life (St. John Chrysostom)<\/li>\n<li>On Wealth and Poverty (St. John Chrysostom)<\/li>\n<li>The Arena (Bishop Ignatius)<\/li>\n<li>The Ladder of divine ascent (John Climacus)<\/li>\n<li>The Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis)<\/li>\n<li>Jesus a dialogue with the Savious (Lev Gillet)<\/li>\n<li>Practical Spirituality (Fr. Athanasius Iskander)<\/li>\n<li>The Burning Bush (Fr. Lev Gillet)<\/li>\n<li>The Way of a Pilgrim<\/li>\n<li>Orthodox Prayer Life \u2013 the Interior way (Fr. Matthew the Poor)<\/li>\n<li>Our Father (Fr. Alexander Schmemann)<\/li>\n<li>Practicing the presence of God (Brother Lawrence)<\/li>\n<li>Spiritual world (St. Isaac the Syrian)<\/li>\n<li>Books by Fr Anthony Corianis<\/li>\n<li>Acquisition of the Holy Spirit (St. Seraphim of Sarov)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Biblical<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Ancient Christian Commentary of Scripture Series (Inter Varsity Press)<\/li>\n<li>The Orthodox Bible Study Companion Series (Fr. Lawrence Farley)<\/li>\n<li>Bible Character Series (F.B. Meyer)<\/li>\n<li>Bible Commentary Series (Fr. Tadros Malaty)<\/li>\n<li>Taught by God \u2013 Making sense of the difficult sayings of Jesus (Daniel Fanous)<\/li>\n<li>Christ in His Saints (Fr. Patrick Reardon)<\/li>\n<li>Christ in The Psalms (Fr. Patrick Reardon)<\/li>\n<li>Jesus of Nazareth (Pope Benedict)<\/li>\n<li>Person of the Christ (Daniel Fanous)<\/li>\n<li>Life of Paul (John Pollock)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Christian Faith<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis)<\/li>\n<li>The Case for Christ (Lee Strobel)<\/li>\n<li>The Case for Faith (Lee Strobel)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Orthodox Faith<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>The Orthodox Way (Bishop Kalistos Ware)<\/li>\n<li>Becoming Orthodox (Peter Gillquist)<\/li>\n<li>The Orthodox Church (Timothy Ware)<\/li>\n<li>Eastern Orthodox Christianity \u2013 a Western Perspective (Daniel Clendenin)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Coptic Church<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction to the Coptic Orthodox Church (Fr. Tadros Malaty)<\/li>\n<li>The Story of the Copts (Iris Habib El Masri)<\/li>\n<li>The Coptic Orthodox Church \u2013 A Lily Among Thorns (Dr. Raafat Gindi)<\/li>\n<li>Journey Back to Eden (Mark Gruber)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Church History<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Four Witnesses \u2013 The Early Church in her own words (Rod Bennett)<\/li>\n<li>A short history of the Early Church (Harry Boer)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Saints<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Father Arseny (Bouteneff)<\/li>\n<li>The Holy Fire (Robert Payne)<\/li>\n<li>The life of Anthony (St. Athanasius)<\/li>\n<li>St. Seraphim of Sarov (Valentine Zander)<\/li>\n<li>Mother Teresa \u2013 Come be my light (Brian Kolodiejchuk)<\/li>\n<li>Lev Gillet \u2013 A monk of the Eastern Church (Elisabeth Behr-Sigel)<\/li>\n<li>Champion of Truth \u2013 the life of St. Athanasius (Michael E. Molloy)<\/li>\n<li>A song for Nagasaki (Paul Glynn)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Church &amp; Sacraments<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>The forgotten Medicine \u2013 The mystery of Repentance (Fr. Seraphim Aleksiev)<\/li>\n<li>Sacramental Life (H.G. Bishop Youanis)<\/li>\n<li>Jesus and the Jewish roots of the Eucharist (Brant Pitre)<\/li>\n<li>Bread &amp; Water, Wine &amp; Oil (Fr. Meletios Webber)<\/li>\n<li>Understanding the Liturgy (Fr. Athanasius Iskander)<\/li>\n<li>Christ in the Eucharist (Fr. Tadros Malaty)<\/li>\n<li>For the Life of the World (Fr. Alexander Schmemann)<\/li>\n<li>Church Cycle Reading with the Fathers (St. Paul brotherhood)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Contemporary Issues<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>The Sacred Gift of Life \u2013 Orthodox Christianity and Bioethics (John Breck)<\/li>\n<li>The Sword of the Prophet \u2013 Islam (Serge Trifkovic)<\/li>\n<li>O Death, where is thy sting? (Fr. Alexander Schmemann)<\/li>\n<li>Many years with the problems of people (H.H. Pope Shenouda)<\/li>\n<li>Four Loves (C.S. Lewis)<\/li>\n<li>Problem of Pain (C.S. Lewis)<\/li>\n<li>Till we have faces (C.S. Lewis)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Theology<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>On the incarnation (St. Athanasius)<\/li>\n<li>Comparative Theology (H.H. Pope Shenouda)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Service<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>The Paradise of Service (H.G. Bishop Youanis)<\/li>\n<li>Serve the Lord with Gladness (Fr. Lev Gillet)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recommended Readings Spiritual Conferences (John Cassian) The Crucified Jesus (Fr. Manasseh Youhanna) On Marriage and Family life (St. John Chrysostom) On Wealth and Poverty (St. John Chrysostom) The Arena (Bishop Ignatius) The Ladder of divine ascent (John Climacus) The Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis) Jesus a dialogue with the Savious (Lev Gillet) Practical Spirituality (Fr. Athanasius &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/recommended-readings-list\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Recommended Readings List&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[41,40,39,38],"class_list":["post-5341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-list","tag-reading","tag-readings","tag-recommendedr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5343,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341\/revisions\/5343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}