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Books > Christianity > Orthodox Churches
Recognized as a saint by both Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian
Christians alike, Jacob of Sarug (d. 521) produced many narrative
poems that have rarely been translated into English. Of his
reported 760 metrical homilies, only about half survive. Part of a
series of fascicles containing the bilingual Syriac-English
editions of Saint Jacob of Sarug's homilies, this volume contains
two of his homilies on Paul. The Syriac text is fully vocalized,
and the translation is annotated with a commentary and biblical
references. The volume is one of the fascicles of Gorgias Press's
Complete Homilies of Saint Jacob of Sarug, which, when complete,
will contain all of Jacob's surviving sermons.
In the second volume of her Essays in Ecumenical Theology, Ivana
Noble engages in conversation with Orthodox theologians and
spiritual writers on diverse questions, such as how to discover the
human heart, what illumination by the divine light means, how
spiritual life is connected to attitudes and acts of social
solidarity, why sacrificial thinking may not be the best frame for
expressing Christ's redemption, why theological anthropology needs
to have a strong ecological dimension, why freedom needs to coexist
with love for others, and why institutions find the ability to be
helpful not only in their own traditions but also in the Spirit
that blows where it wills.
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