The Fathers of the Eastern Church

The Fathers of the Eastern Church brings to new life a period in Christianity when a great new religion spread across the Near East like a prairie fire and the early church assumed the form it was to hold for centuries. Through the lives and writings of ten great leaders - including Clement of Alexandria, Origen, the Cappodocians, John Chrysostom, Dionysius the Areopagite, and Gregory Palamas - we see the apostolic fire of the age and their intense individual experiences become crystallized not only into dogma and external order, but also into some of the greatest spiritual literature produced outside of the Canon. A wonderful starting point for those interested in learning more about the mystical traditions of the Orthodox Church.