Books
The Crucifixion of the King of Glory: The Amazing History and Sublime Mystery of the Passion.
The Crucifixion and Resurrection of Christ are central events in our salvation. Yet few Christians have a good grasp of the first-century historical and religious context in which the Crucifixion took place, nor of its true significance for the people of that time, and hence for our time as well.
Biblical scholar and attorney Dr. Jeannie Constantinou puts modern readers in the center of the events of Christ's Passion, bringing the best of modern scholarship to bear while keeping her explanation faithful in every particular to the early Church.
“A genuinely spectacular book, combining ground-breaking scholarship with extraordinary clarity and readability. It contains numerous historical facts and observations I have never encountered anywhere else.”
“I love this book... It has brought Christ alive for me.”
Thinking Orthodox: Understanding and Acquiring the Orthodox Christian Mind.
What does it mean to "think Orthodox"? What are the unspoken and unexplored premises and presumptions underlying what Christians believe? Orthodox Christianity is based on preserving the mind of the early Church, its phronema. Dr. Jeannie Constantinou brings her more than forty years' experience as a professor, Bible teacher, and speaker to bear in explaining what the Orthodox phronema is, how it can be acquired, and how that phronema is expressed in true Orthodox theology.
“With brilliant historical insight, the author successfully navigates very difficult and complex issues surrounding the meaning and mindset (phronema) of holy Tradition. She reveals a theological method that is largely foreign to the intellectual heritage of the Christian West...”
Now available in paperback!
Guiding to a Blessed End: Andrew of Caesarea and His Apocalypse Commentary in the Ancient Church.
In this groundbreaking book, the first ever written about Andrew of Caesarea, Eugenia Scarvelis Constantinou, the leading expert on Andrew and the first to translate his Apocalypse commentary into any modern language, analyzes his historical milieu, education, style, methodology, theology, eschatology, as well as his pervasive and lasting influence on the Eastern Christian interpretation of the Apocalypse. This interesting and insightful work explains the fluctuating status of the Book of Revelation in Eastern Christianity through the centuries and the direct correlation between Andrew of Caesarea’s commentary and the acceptance of Revelation into the New Testament canon for the Armenian, Russian, Georgian and Greek Orthodox.
“Written with astonishing command of subject material, documentation, style clarity and analytic rationality. If only all authors could display this level of competence!!!”
Commentary on the Apocalypse by Andrew of Caesarea
Fathers of the Church series, volume 123
The early seventh-century Roman Empire saw plague, civil war, famine, and catastrophic barbarian invasions. Eschatological fervor ran high, as people were convinced that the end of the world was near. In this climate, the first Greek patristic commentary on the Apocalypse was composed by Andrew, Archbishop of Caesarea, Cappadocia in 611. This commentary, consistent with the patristic tradition, presents the entire ancient Eastern Christian tradition of Apocalypse interpretation. Andrew’s commentary was so important and influential that it led to the canonical acceptance of the Apocalypse into the New Testament canon for the Orthodox Church.
“Dr. Constantinou wrote her doctoral thesis on this commentary, and so this text has an extensive and thorough introduction, the Translation is extremely well done, and the footnotes throughout the commentary are excellent. The commentary of St. Andrew on the Apocalypse is the most important and influential Patristic commentary on this book, and so anyone who is interested in discovering the historic Christian understanding of that text needs to study this commentary.”