Eight new spring and summer titles from SVS Press are being launched at major ecclesial, artistic, and academic venues. Some have already have made literary and scholarly news.
In April Arvo Pärt: Out of Silence debuted at the “Arvo Pärt: Journeys in Silence” Live Ideas Festival, sponsored by New York Live Arts.
In May a major international doctoral and post-doctoral religion conference in Prague, “Ecumenical Reception and Critique of 20th-century Orthodox Theology in Exile and Diaspora,” featured the title The Ways of Orthodox Theology in the West. The book emerged from a larger overall project, “Symbolic Mediation of Wholeness in Western Orthodoxy,” which was financed by the Czech Republic and included prominent Protestant and Orthodox scholars—among them, St. Vladimir’s Seminary Dean, Archpriest John Behr, who wrote the Foreword to the book.
(+2013), at the 18th All-American Council of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), July 20–24, 2015. The release of the volume, published posthumously, was timed to coincide with the opening of the council and to complement its overall theme, “How to Expand the Mission.” SVS Press will feature the new title in a special section of its display, along with Archbishop Dmitri’s other six publications through SVS Press.
In August at the 17th International Conference on Patristic Studies at Oxford University, SVS Press will launch two new Popular Patristics Series titles: Two Hundred Chapters on Theology, by Maximus the Confessor (PPS53); and On the Apostolic Tradition, by Hippolytus (PPS54), the latter being a second edition of the work that employs a recently discovered Ethiopic manuscript. Later in the fall, the Press will release A Layman in the Desert: Monastic Wisdom for a Life in the World, a fresh look at the desert fathers through the writings of St. John Cassian.
“Besides attracting thousands of Orthodox Christian readers annually, our titles fall into some of the most unusual but grateful hands,” said the Reverend Deacon Gregory Hatrak, director of marketing and operations at SVS Press and Bookstore. “For example, last year, the Salvation Army in Australia called to place a large order for our Popular Patristics title On the Human Condition, by St. Basil the Great, for a course they were offering!
“And, while most recently we have produced important scholarly volumes,” he went on, “we also published our other ‘staples,’ for example, the exquisitely illustrated and lively children’s book St. Nicholas and the Nine Gold Coins, and the spiritual biography To Open One's Heart: A Spiritual Path.
“Our newest eight titles represent the breadth and depth SVS Press typifies,” Dn. Gregory emphasized, “and the fine quality our readership expects.”
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