The Orthodox Chuch (Timothy Ware)

[M.C. Steenberg]

Title: The Orthodox Church (2nd edition)
Author(s): Timothy Ware (Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia)
Publisher: Penguin, June 1993 (for 2nd edition)
ISBN: 0140146563 / 978-0140146561
Pages: 368
Price: $11.56 (paperback)
Links: Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/Orthodox-Church-New-Timothy-Ware/dp/0140146563)
Description: Metropolitan Kallistos' influential text on the history of the Orthodox Church, which for decades has been the 'standard introduction' in English.

[Jose Lauro Strapasson]

I have this book and this was the first book I had about the Orthodox Church and the first book I have read enterily in english (since I am a non native english speaker). This book is nice. But I just wished it was bigger, with more information, colors, pictures, icons, etc. For example, it could have the text of the liturgies, the canons of the concils, a prayer book, some data about the saints, a cathecism, etc. So I am still wainting for an "Orthodox Handbook" with everything one need. This is not the case of this book, which is just an introduction to the Orthodox Chuch.

Since the Eastern Orthodox Church is the Church, the chapter about Christian Reunion could be removed.

And perhaps we deserve this, but it completely ignore Orthodoxy in Latin America...

[Olga]

IThis book is nice. But I just wished it was bigger, with more information, colors, pictures, icons, etc. For example, it could have the text of the liturgies, the canons of the concils, a prayer book, some data about the saints, a cathecism, etc. So I am still wainting for an "Orthodox Handbook" with everything one need....

Dear Jose, your request could not possibly be fitted into one book. All of those would easily fill two or three shelves in a bookcase, even if in abridged (summarised) form. :)

[Andreas Moran]

It is worth remembering that there is a companion book, 'The Orthodox Way', which forms a useful introduction to Orthodox spiritual life.

[Jose Lauro Strapasson]

We could have more than one volume.:) Or more pages. Ok, I believe that was not the intention of the author of this book to create something bigger, but one could create one like this, and, it would be easy to do so since most material is ready.
Now I have just bought OSB, full version, and I hope to have more things about the Church.

P.S. About Timothy Ware's book, I forgot to say that I didn't like the paper quality, sorry for the expression, I don't know if we say this in english, but it is like "newspaper quality". And no intention to buy 'The Orthodox Way'...

[Theodora E.]

P.S. About Timothy Ware's book, I forgot to say that I didn't like the paper quality, sorry for the expression, I don't know if we say this in english, but it is like "newspaper quality".

This paper is that commonly used on virtually all of the Penguin paperbacks I have, even single volumes of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens.

[Jeremiah Haynes]

I read and enjoyed this book about a year and a half ago, it's really well written and informative. I would actually make the suggestion to read Part 2 Faith and Worship first, as I found this more interesting and satisfied my interest about Orthodoxy more than Part 1 History. Part 1 is not a bad section and it's definitely important, I just found the 2nd part to be more of the meat and potatoes than Part 1.