All the while, The New Gods reaffirms Cioran’s belief in “lucid despair,” and his own signature mixture of pessimism and skepticism in language that never fails to be a pleasure.

Translation of 8 instructions on baptism given by St. John Chrysostom, probably at Antioch, about 390 A.D.

By the middle of the century, men were prompted to disdain the decadent and gaudy colors of the pre-Revolutionary period and wear unrelievedly black frock coats suitable to the manly and serious world of commerce.

Christology and christopraxis find one another in the full and completed knowledge of Christ. This christology links dogmatics and ethics in closer detail than in the previous volumes.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.

Staniloae develops a theology of creation, humanity, the unseen world of angels and demons, the fall of humanity, providence and the deification of the world.

The book concludes with an illuminating chapter on Metropolitan Kallistos and the theological vision of the Philokalia.

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"The Life in Christ by Nicholas Cabasilas is a remarkable product of Byzantium's last great flowering of theology.