The Pursuit of Godliness

Five Centuries on Spiritual Ascent

By Irenei Steenberg

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Description

In this concise volume, Bishop Irenei renews his
exploration of the patristic genre of centuries—one hundred short paragraphs
that can be read individually but are connected by a common theme. Here, His
Grace offers five centuries that impart, in a mode comprehensible to the
contemporary reader, eternal truths expressed by the Holy Fathers on love,
salvation, prayer, the Church, and more.

Additional information

Dimensions 127 × 178 in
Author Name

Irenei Steenberg

Format

BC

Publication Date

20250203

Imprint

Pages

176

Publisher

Language

English

Book Dimensions

178 × 127 mm × 13 mm

Format Detail

Paperback

Author Biography

His Grace Irenei was a Fellow in Patristics and Early
Church History at the University of Oxford, and Chair of Theology and Religious
Studies in Leeds. His Masters and Doctoral (D.Phil Oxon) works were on the
theology of the earliest Church Fathers, especially St Irenaeus of Lyons. He is
the host of the popular A Word From the Holy Fathers
podcast and the author of the Beginnings of a Life of
Prayer
, as well as numerous scholarly books and articles. He is the
ruling hierarch of the Diocese of London and Western Europe in the Russian
Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.

Contents

Introduction

I. A Century on the Kingdom of God and its Attainment

II. A Century on Love

III. A Century on the Acquisition of Knowledge

IV. A Century on the Church

V. A Century on Worship and Prayer, and the Ascent of Humanity to
God

A Concluding Word

Notes

Subject Index

Scripture Index