Bible and the Holy Fathers for Orth: Daily Scripture Readings and Commentary (Holy Fathers S.)

It is exactly what my husband wanted, he is very pleased with it.

Excellent quality, excellent service

Required reading for all Christians. Use it daily.

This book is very important for every Orthodox Christian who is interested in reading the Bible every day! It has daily Bible readings(mainly from the New Testament) based on the Church's calendar(old and new) and an explanation from the church fathers.It also has Bible readings on many other issues like e.g. faith or sin or happiness e.t.c. All Orthodox Christians should own this book!

An excellent resource for reading the Fathers of the church alongside scripture. However, it is very bulky and heavy which makes it difficult to use. I'd love to see a kindle version and perhaps a further edition to cover more scripture because this only covers the daily readings according to the church calendar.

The content of this book has been extremely helpful for me as a catacumin in the orthodox Church.And as for the actual book itself, the green exterior is fantastic and it's a very solid book.

This is an amazing resource to have. 5 stars all the way. But it should be known that, although put out by Saint Vlad's, it doesn't follow the OCA reading schedule. Best I can tell is that the readings are in step with the Serbian Church; the Slavic lectionary. Having said this, I personally don't mind nor do I think it's an issue at all regardless of ones jurisdiction. Everyone who uses this book as a daily lectionary will profit a great deal. In the end, that's why we read the Scriptures and the Holy Father's. I recommend this to all.

If you are an Eastern Orthodox Christian you are doing yourself a disservice if you don't own this book.

In the history of the medieval West and the Reformation, the medieval idea of the "sacra pagina" or sacred page was chiefly a Bible which, in some cases, looked very different from how Bibles do now.The image at the bottom of this review, like some (but not all) Bibles (this spilled over into other categories, such as legal text) had a page of commentary from the saints that held an inset Bible text like gold mounting a precious jewel. (The enclosed picture is one that presents text and commentary.) And the Reformers, or at least Martin Luther, complained that there was a wall of paper keeping people from just getting to the Bible text; from the Reformation onwards, a Bible was the text of the Bible itself. If you look at a pricey  1611 King James facsimile edition , the footnotes are mostly for translation issues and rarely important. (Even these footnotes were dropped.) Modern Catholic translations like the  New American Bible  and the  New Jerusalem Bible  at least maintain vestiges of this noble tradition; they contain more footnotes which are intended to provide guidance, and contain a lot more theological substance than footnotes about trivialities and translation issues. However, when compared to the medieval tradition Luther attacked, I would rather lump modern Catholic Bibles in with the Protestant footnote-averse concept of a Bible than medieval Catholicism. The footnotes add real value, but they are extraordinarily anemic compared to a collection gathering saints' commentary on a given text.I was personally puzzled that for this collection Protestant commentary was incorporated for, if I recall correctly, Old Testament passages where Orthodox commentary is not available in English and may not be available in any language. Sometimes Orthodoxy is colorblind between Catholicism and Protestantism, but why not consider at least the better Roman sources? Thomas Aquinas provided a break from the past and what then was the fashion in a West intoxicated with an Aristotle that the Russians never had and the Greeks never lost. His  Summa Theologiae  may get a remark of, "This is a masterpiece of philosophy about God, but could we move on to the theology that St. Gregory Palamas practiced?" However, there was an older tradition in the West where students of theology collected the sayings of previous saints: Thomas retained participation in the older tradition of curating collections of sayings (I once leafed through  his commentary on Luke ), enough so that even a logician pest like Abelard, whose  Story of My Misfortunes  reads as an obnoxious Asperger's poster boy, said basically that you can say anything you want from the Tradition of the Fathers, and wrote "Yes and No", a text that brought up various serious questions and then lined up quotations from authority figures saying "Yes" on one side and "No" on the other. My point is that even the renegade in this story in attacking the value of authority did so by collecting relevant quotations from the saints.I haven't studied what, if any, commentaries on the Old Testament are available in English translation from before the West fell in love with Aristotle. My instincts regarding what I've read is that the Protestant sources incorporated are probably good, and there is good Protestant devotional writing.But that is the only real flaw or oddity I've seen in this work. Overall, it resurrects under a different external arrangement the tradition of including precious jewels of Scripture set in the gold of saints' commentary. Mrs. Manley does not seem to show particular squeamishness about passages which are politically incorrect, which is a strength. Now there is room for improvement, specifically by making a complete Bible and treating the whole Bible like Mrs. Manley treated the subset of the Bible that is included, with whatever typesetting is appropriate (I do not consider any Western medieval tradition of Biblical typesetting to be normative; I just think that it's sometimes an attempt to answer the right question).However, I would prefer not to gripe that she didn't do even more, but recognize in her a monumental feat and the best Orthodox Bible I'm aware of today.Cordially, C.J.S. Hayward Tr.  The Classic Orthodox Bible1611 King James facsimile editionNew American BibleNew Jerusalem BibleSumma Theologiaehis commentary on LukeStory of My MisfortunesC.J.S. HaywardThe Classic Orthodox Bible

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