Suffering: Where Is God When It Hurts? (Kindle $3, sample chapter)
This is a topic where books seem inadequate. However, some of the things I've written may ease a heavy burden, just a little.
Suffering: Where Is God When It Hurts? (Kindle $3, sample chapter)
This is a topic where books seem inadequate. However, some of the things I've written may ease a heavy burden, just a little.
C.J.S. Hayward: The Complete Works (Kindle $3; paperback: volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6, volume 7, sample chapter $20 each)
One-stop shopping for both good and bad works. (Other available collections are more tightly focused focused around some particular theme or topic.).
Odds and Ends, Curiosities and Creative Works (Kindle $3, sample chapter)
This is probably the most eclectic bundle of musings this site offers. Highlights include "Physics" and in particular "The Angelic Letters."
Fighting Dragons: Works of Theology and Polemics (Kindle $3, sample chapter)
Real and malevolent dragons exist: witness the red dragon with seven heads and ten horns in the Revelation of Jesus Christ. Part of fighting that dragon, if immediately a small part, is in polemics where one can both agree and disagree.
How Shall I Tell an Alchemist? A Collection of Poems (Kindle $3, sample chapter)
These poems are meant to capture beauty and depth.
Medieval Realms: An Eclectic Collection (Kindle $3, sample chapter)
Various works relating to the medieval; the author has read medieval literature extensively, sometimes in the original, but this collection represents fantasy above historical fiction.
Hymn to the Creator of Heaven and Earth, and Other Prayers (Kindle $3, sample chapter)
Perhaps the truest poems the author has written are really prayers, and the truest prayers the author has written are really poems. You are invited to read this collection.
Religion and Science, Technology and Faith (Kindle $3, sample chapter)
The basic Westeren academic understanding of "religion and science" is flawed. This book briefly looks at that debate, and suggested another dimension to explore: that of "technology and faith."
Yonder: The Anthology (Kindle $3, hardcover $40, sample chapter)
This dystopian science fiction novel never mentions "Hell"; and speaks of "the Heavens", meaning space or the sky, but never "Heaven" where saints will reign with Christ... but it is on all counts a journey from Hell to Heaven.
Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" Revisited and Other Socratic Dialog (Kindle $3, sample chapter)
This book has at least one one-star review from a reader who expected a secondary source rather than actual Socratic dialog. Notwithstanding, a reader who is interested in Socratic dialog may appreciate the title.
Articles on Christian Faith and Other Things (Kindle $3, sample chapter)
An assortment of reflections, musings, and essays touching on Christianity.
As It Were in Ye Olden Dayes (Kindle $3, paperback $9, sample chapter)
A collection of poems and literature lovingly written in Elizabethan English, plus the novel The Sign of the Grail (which includes passages in medieval English).
How to Survive Hard Times (Kindle $3, sample chapter)
We live in hard times that may be getting harder. But God works in hard times as well as easy ones. God reigns and cares in both, and some have said that his Providence is the more magnificent in hard times. You are invited to read the sample chapter.
Doxology: The Anthology (Kindle $3, hardcover $40, sample chapter)
A look at the divine glory through the practical lens of suffering and hardship.
Chapters: Collections of Short Insights in Theology (Kindle $3, sample chapter)
There is an old Orthodox tradition of distilling the Fathers into short nuggets of wisdom. These works are meant to follow in their footsteps.
Doxology and Other Orthodox Hymns and Poems (Kindle $3, sample chapter)
These hymns and poems are really prayers.
The Christmas Tales: The Anthology (Kindle $3, hardcover $40, sample chapter)
The title chapter was inspired, however crudely, by The Canterbury Tales, and touches on other topics including Orthodoxy and heterodoxy.
A Small Taste of Jonathan's Corner (Kindle $1, paperback $7, sample chapter)
Some people may be intimidated by a book that's an inch-and-a-half thick, especially if they are not familiar with the author. For interested parties, the slender volume of A small taste of Jonathan's Corner may provide a very gentle introduction.
The Seraphinians: "Blessed Seraphim Rose" and His Axe-Wielding Western Converts (Kindle $3, paperback $7, sample chapter)
It may be that many traditionally Orthodox lands profited from Fr. Seraphim's work, but he harms Western converts who get caught up with him and make him their polestar.
Knights and Ladies, Women and Men (Kindle $3, sample chapter)
He created them male and female: it was an apocalyptic sign given to a saint that men would wear long hair and be indistinguishable from women. (Anyone up for the sexlessness called "androgyny"?)
The Best of Jonathan's Corner (Kindle $3, paperback $25, sample chapter)
The Best of Jonathan's Corner is the flagship not only of this site's works of theology, but all of its works.
Creation, Evolution, Intelligent Design, and Origins Questions (Kindle $3, sample chapter)
Protestants bring the concept of an origins position into Orthodoxy; but Orthodoxy is hardly the debate's native soil. This is a collection of individual posts to represent the issue (or non-issue) that science presents Ortodoxy on origins questions.
The Luddite's Guide to Technology (Kindle $3, paperback $10, sample chapter)
The Luddite's Guide to Technology is one of the author's three major critiques (the other two are The Seraphinians: "Blessed Seraphim Rose" and His Axe-Wielding Western Converts and Orthodoxy and Contraception).
Mystical Theology: A Broad Selection of Orthodox Prose (Kindle $3)
One of the works, probably one of the less successful ones, talks about Swiss Army Knives. This whole collection is a bit like a Swiss Army Knife; it has many different blades and many different functions. Why not dive in?
A Pilgrimage From Narnia (Kindle $3, sample chapter)
One Orthodox Dean said that he sang his way into Orthodoxy. The author has started with the Chronicles of Narnia and made a journey into Holy Orthodoxy. Here is some of the beauty he has seen along the way.
"Do We Have Rights?" and Other Homilies (Kindle $3, sample chapter)
The truth of the matter can sometimes be very different from what we expect.
The Sign of the Grail: The Anthology (Kindle $3, hardcover $40, sample chapter)
The Arthurian legends are one of the greatest literary achievements of the Middle Ages, and to some the tradition of Arthurian legends that began with the 15th century's Sir Thomas Mallory. This book is written drawing on the tradition of sources that end with Mallory.