Adventures in the Unseen: My Adventures in Africa
By Archbishop Makarios (Tillyrides), Metropolitan of Kenya

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Paperback (September 2007)
ISBN: 978-1-933275-13-0
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My Adventures in Africa is a sequel to Adventures in the Unseen: The Silent Witness. Many people who have read the latter have expressed further interest in the life of Orthodox Mission in Africa. The manner in which Orthodoxy was introduced into East Africa during the twentieth century, and the way in which it has taken root and spread, can only be explained in terms of a Divine miracle. Orthodoxy has spread phenomenally throughout East Africa. From Uganda, it has spread into Kenya, Tanzania and all Africa. In recent years, the Orthodox Churches of Finland, Greece, Cyprus and America have assisted their sister Church in East Africa. This help in no way detracts from the fact that the planting of Orthodoxy in East Africa was achieved by African men and African enterprise without any external missionary support. His Eminence Archbishop Makarios, Metropolitan of Zimbabwe, a native of Cyprus, began his missionary activity in East Africa as the Prinicipal of the Patriarchal Seminary which was established in Kenya by His Beatitude Archbishop Makarios III of Cyprus. In 1992, he was elected and consecrated Bishop of Riruta. He continued as principal of the Patriarchal Seminary until September 1997. The following year, the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Alexandria elected him as Metropolitan of Zimbabwe. His collection of sermons and other discourses, delivered on various occasions, gives an insight into a work of transformation. Seventy years ago, authentic Orthodoxy did not exist in East Africa. Today, a network of hundreds of parishes extends across the length and breadth of this vast area of the continent. It is an event of no small significance in modern Christian history. These sermons serve to provide a witness to this remarkable phenomenon.

Rome & Constantinople: Pope Paul VI & Metropolitan Meliton of Chalcedon
By Metropolitan Athanasios Papas of Helioupolis and Theirai

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Paperback (November 2006)
ISBN: 1-933275-11-1
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This extraordinary little book by His Eminence Metropolitan Athanasios of Helioupolis and Theirai throws light on a fascinating, solemn and inspiring event of ecclesiastical diplomacy. It shows how authentic ecumenical action points out the way to authentic Christian rapprochement between Eastern and Western Christianity.

Essays on Orthodox Christianity and Church History
By Charles B. Ashanin

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Paperback (August 2006)
ISBN: 1-933275-08-1
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These essays were written at intervals during Dr. Ashanin's teaching career of thirty-five years. They were published in various publications as a response to the theological challenges which his generation had to face. He wrote them to elucidate the historical issues of my time from the Christian perspective. Although these essays were written in particular periods of time, they have present day relevance, because he tried to interpret the issues discussed in them under the aegis of the recurring, underlying themes. A Christian historian, while he observes all rules of the historical method and deals with his subject sub specie temporis, cannot escape awareness that there is another dimension which he cannot ignore, a dimension in all human aff airs to which he must pay attention in his writings, that of sub specie Aeternitatis. He must combine epis temology, the knowledge of things, with eschatology, the divine goal to which everything is guided by divine wisdom. In philoso phy, this aspect is known as teleology, the aim to which every thing leads. While these may not be found explicit in his writings, they are implicit in them, because his intellectual consciousness is imbued with this orientation, and it is inevitable that it is embodied in his work.

Early Christian Attitudes toward Images
By Rev. Dr. Steven Bigham

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Paperback (June 2004)
ISBN: 0-9745618-6-X
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For all iconophiles, that is, those who accept the dogma of the Seventh Ecumenical Council, but especially the Orthodox who claim that the icon has a sacramental and mystical character, it is naturally disquieting to hear the claim that the early Christians were aniconic and iconophobic. If this claim is true, the theology and the veneration of the icon are seriously undermined. It is, therefore, natural for iconophiles to attempt to disprove the thesis according to which the early Christians had no images whatsoever (aniconic) because they believed them to be idols (iconophobic). It is equally natural for iconophiles to want to substantiate, as much as this is possible, their deep intuition that the roots of Christian iconography go back to the apostolic age. This study weakens the notion and credibility of the alleged hostility of the early Christians to non-idolatrous images, providing a more balanced evaluation of this question.

Adventures in the Unseen: The Silent Witness
Volume I: Harare, Zimbabwe, 2000.
By Archbishop Makarios (Tillyrides), Metropolitan of Kenya and Irinoupolis

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Paperback (May 2004)
ISBN: 0-9745618-5-1
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The manner in which Orthodoxy was introduced into East Africa during the twentieth century, and the way in which it has taken root and spread, can only be explained in terms of a Divine miracle. Orthodoxy has spread phenomenally throughout East Africa. From Uganda, it has spread into Kenya, Tanzania and all Africa. In recent years, the Orthodox Churches of Finland, Greece, Cyprus and America have assisted their sister Church in East Africa. This help in no way detracts from the fact that the planting of Orthodoxy in East Africa was achieved by African men and African enterprise without any external missionary support. His Eminence Archbishop Makarios, Metropolitan of Zimbabwe, a native of Cyprus, began his missionary activity in East Africa as the Prinicipal of the Patriarchal Seminary which was established in Kenya by His Beatitude Archbishop Makarios III of Cyprus. In 1992, he was elected and consecrated Bishop of Riruta. He continued as principal of the Patriarchal Seminary until September 1997. The following year, the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Alexandria elected him as Metropolitan of Zimbabwe. His collection of sermons and other discourses, delivered on various occasions, gives an insight into a work of transformation. Seventy years ago, authentic Orthodoxy did not exist in East Africa. Today, a network of hundreds of parishes extends across the length and breadth of this vast area of the continent. It is an event of no small significance in modern Christian history. These sermons serve to provide a witness to this remarkable phenomenon.

NOTE: Proceeds from this book will go to support the Archbishopric of Kenya and Irinoupolis.

Ecclesiasticus I
Introducing Eastern Orthodoxy.
By Protopresbyter George Dion. Dragas
(with a Preface by Metropolitan Methodios of Pisdia)

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Paperback (March 2004)
ISBN: 0-9745618-3-5
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The central theme of the Church provides the basis for the collection of statements and essays in this book. They were produced for various occasions and are designed to reach the lay Christian. Two or three of them, however, attempt to go deeper into the wonderful but complex mystery of the Church. Orthodox Christians will find them useful in considering some central perspectives of their ecclesiastical heritage. It will help non-Orthodox Christians to acquaint themselves with Orthodox ways of thinking concerning the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church and, thus, facilitate contemporary dialogue and rapprochement. This provides starting-points for further thought, discussion and inquiry.