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Apoteichisis: Heavenly Communion

Five parts, sixteen chapters, with an appendix and glossary

A complete book on the whole subject of this library, given by its authors for free, non-commercial use in the service of the Orthodox faith. Unlike the copyrighted works below, its full text is hosted here, rendered in the library's house style with its sources kept in the footnotes.

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Catalogued studies

The study whose argument this library examines and, where stated, follows.

  • The Diachronic Agreement of the Holy Fathers on the Obligatory Character of Canon 15

    Ἡ Διαχρονικὴ Συμφωνία τῶν Ἁγίων Πατέρων γιὰ τὸ Ὑποχρεωτικὸ τοῦ 15ου Κανόνος

    Hieromonk Euthymios Trikamenas · Ekdoseis Degiorgio, 2012 · Greek · Study, 324 pages

    Rights
    Rights not confirmed
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    Catalogued as a source and verified against the printed edition; its thesis is examined in the article on the diachronic agreement, and its documentation of the Athonite cessation of 1970 to 1973 is cited in the book's notes.

Canonical collections

  • The Rudder (Pedalion)

    Πηδάλιον

    St Nikodemos the Hagiorite and Hieromonk Agapios · First edition Leipzig, 1800 · Greek · The canons with St Nikodemos' commentary

    Rights
    Original Greek: public domain. The common English translation (Cummings, 1957) remains in copyright.
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    Greek editions circulate in public archives and in print; the English translation is available in print. This library cites the Pedalion by page and renders its sense in its own words.

  • Syntagma of the Divine and Sacred Canons

    Σύνταγμα τῶν θείων καὶ ἱερῶν κανόνων

    G. A. Rhalles and M. Potles · Athens, 1852 to 1859, six volumes · Greek · The standard critical collection of the canons with the Byzantine commentators

    Rights
    Public domain
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    Scans are freely available in public archives; the reference edition for canonical texts cited here.

Patristic series and source editions

  • Patrologia Graeca (PG)

    J. P. Migne (ed.) · Paris, 1857 to 1866, 161 volumes · Greek and Latin · The standard reference series for the Greek Fathers

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    Public domain
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    Scans freely available; this library cites the Fathers by PG volume and column throughout.

  • Ante Nicene Fathers; Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers (ANF, NPNF)

    Roberts, Donaldson, Schaff, Wace (eds.) · 1885 to 1900 · English · The classic English translations of the Fathers

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    Public domain
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    Hosted freely at newadvent.org/fathers and ccel.org; the translation layer used for the English patristic quotations on this site.

  • The Evergetinos, Volume One

    Εὐεργετινός, Τόμος Α

    Compiled by Paul, founder of the Evergetis monastery; edition of Bishop Matthew (Langis) of Oinoi · Athens, 1985 · Greek · The great Byzantine anthology of the sayings and lives of the Fathers, arranged by theme

    Rights
    The ancient text is public domain; the 1985 edition and its apparatus remain in copyright
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    Catalogued for reference. The book hosted on this site cites it beside the Apophthegmata for the saying of Abba Agathon; nothing of the modern edition is reproduced here.

  • The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection

    Ἀποφθέγματα τῶν Πατέρων

    Translated by Benedicta Ward · Cistercian Publications, 1984 · English (from the Greek) · The standard English translation of the alphabetical Apophthegmata

    Rights
    Translation in copyright; the ancient Greek collection is public domain (PG 65)
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    Catalogued for reference and verification. The sayings quoted on this site (Anthony 25, Agathon 5) are given in the hosted book's own rendering, cited to the Alphabetical Collection, never in this translation's wording.

  • Commentary on the Apocalypse

    Ἑρμηνεία εἰς τὴν Ἀποκάλυψιν

    St Andrew of Caesarea; translated by Eugenia Scarvelis Constantinou · Fathers of the Church vol. 123, Catholic University of America Press, 2011 · English (from the Greek) · The chief Greek patristic commentary on Revelation

    Rights
    Translation in copyright; the ancient Greek commentary is public domain (PG 106)
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    Catalogued for reference on the exegesis of Revelation 18:4 (come out of her, my people), which the hosted book treats through St Bede's public domain commentary; nothing of this translation is reproduced here.

  • Acta Conciliorum Oecumenicorum (ACO)

    E. Schwartz and successors (eds.) · Berlin, 1914 onward · Greek and Latin · The critical edition of the acts of the ecumenical councils

    Rights
    Consult in libraries; editorial status varies by volume
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    The scholarly reference for conciliar acts cited here by tome and page.

  • The Philokalia

    Φιλοκαλία τῶν Ἱερῶν Νηπτικῶν

    Compiled by St Makarios of Corinth and St Nikodemos the Hagiorite · Venice, 1782 · Greek · The great collection of hesychast texts

    Rights
    Original Greek: public domain. The English translation of Palmer, Sherrard and Ware (1979 onward) remains in copyright.
    Access
    Catalogued for reference. The Greek circulates in public archives; the English translation is available in print. Its texts bear on the spiritual life presupposed by this subject rather than on the canonical question directly.

See also the witness of Scripture and the Fathers, where the public domain texts are quoted directly with their citations.