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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.

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Author Name

Irenei Steenberg
Format

ED
Publication Date

20250203
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Publisher

Language

English
Book Dimensions

0
Format Detail

ePub3

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

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