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.

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.

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.

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

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

Early Christianity in the context of Roman society raises important questions for historians, sociologists of religion and theologians alike. This work explores the differing perspectives arising from a changing social and academic culture.

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