Orthodox FAQ and Reading List

Orthodox FAQ's and reading list
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When reading the FAQ's, please note that you might not get the pertinence of verses referenced if you use the NIV or any other highly liberal translation (no, the KJV isn't highly liberal--it's not flawless, especially on a couple of verse relating to Mary where it is particularly biased, but the KJV or NKJV are generally the go to English translations for the Orthodox apart from our Church's translation, especially when they include the "Apocrypha").

Argument for the historicity of the Gospels: http://pastebin.com/9XxNnSU6

FAQ for Roman Catholics: http://pastebin.com/ZSTu1ZvK
FAQ for Protestants: http://pastebin.com/FjeXZhXj
FAQ for atheists: http://pastebin.com/zwxEkSri
FAQ for liberals: http://pastebin.com/eSXfwKgT
FAQ for Muslims: http://pastebin.com/QbEvMzUX
FAQ for Jews: http://pastebin.com/V7rpLJSZ

Orthodox Reading List

Fundamentals
An Orthodox version (entirely new translation) of the Authorized King James Old Testament, with permission of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, and the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Mark of Berlin; rendered in paragraph form: http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/zot.htm

An Orthodox English translation of the New Testament: https://vk.com/doc97914067_216889322?hash=48fcea5db710fd7e0b&dl=f715f927630cebc76d

The Orthodox Church: http://www.intratext.com/x/eng0804.htm

The Orthodox Way (it's the "DOWNLOAD" at the very top): http://libgen.io/ads.php?md5=a267c7bcedf2ebd2cbb751766daa9394

The Orthodox Faith: http://oca.org/orthodoxy/the-orthodox-faith

These Truths We Hold: http://sttikhonsmonastery.org/about_orthodoxy.html

A Manual of Divine Services: http://www.intratext.com/IXT/ENG0827/_INDEX.HTM

Orthodox fasting rules: http://www.abbamoses.com/fasting.html

The point of fasting in the Orthodox Church: https://oca.org/questions/dailylife/orthodox-fasting

The Orthodox Teaching on Christians Outside the Church: http://orthodoxinfo.com/inquirers/status.aspx

Moral Issues: https://books.google.com/books?id=kUFWkKePQSkC&dq

A quick guide to spotting Satan: http://www.pravmir.com/embraced-by-lucifer/

Theology and doctrine
An Exposition of the Orthodox Faith: http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3304.htm

Theology of Icon: https://mospat.ru/en/2011/02/06/news35783/

The Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom: http://www.goarch.org/chapel/liturgical_texts/liturgy_hchc

The Didache: http://www.paracletepress.com/didache.html

The Fount of Knowledge, and The Orthodox Faith:  http://ia802609.us.archive.org/8/items/fathersofthechur009511mbp/fathersofthechur009511mbp.pdf

The Life of Saint Anthony: http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2811.htm

The Philokalia: https://archive.org/details/Philokalia-TheCompleteText

The Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian: https://archive.org/details/IsaacOfNinevehMysticTreatises

My Life in Christ: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/kronstadt/christlife.pdf&quot%3B&gt%3B&lt%3BIMG=20

The Book of Grace: http://htmp.org/Resources/Appendix-B-BW1.pdf

The Ladder of Divine Ascent: http://www.prudencetrue.com/images/TheLadderofDivineAscent.pdf

The Desert Fathers: http://www.goarch.org/ourfaith/ourfaith8134

Andrew of Caesarea's commentary on Revelations: http://www.revelation-resources.com/2009/10/01/e-s-constantinou-andrew-of-caesarea-and-the-apocalypse/

Nihilism, by Father Seraphim Rose: http://oodegr.co/english/filosofia/nihilism_root_modern_age.htm

Literature
The Way of the Pilgrim: http://desertfathers.webs.com/thewayofthepilgrim.htm

Notes from Underground, P&V translation: https://7chan.org/lit/src/fyodor-dostoevsky-notes-from-underground-1.pdf

The Master and Margarita, P&V translation (please, if you haven't read this work before, note that the Devil here is based on Dostoevsky's idea of him in The Brothers Karamazov, and that if you do not read the introduction to the work, you might take it for anti-Christian): https://7chan.org/lit/src/Mikhail_Bulgakov,_Richard_Pevear,_Larissa_Volokhon.pdf

Laurus, by Eugene Vodolazkin. It's too new for me to link to.

Adamgirk: a medieval Armenian Orthodox epic poem about the Fall of Man. The English translation is very expensive brand new, but reasonably priced if you get it used.