Marriage as a Path to Holiness: Lives of Married Saints
Overview
Discover the lives of married saints, guided by David and Mary Ford. This expanded twentieth-anniversary edition includes the lives of over 180 married saints. The book also includes an extensive introduction, presenting a summary of the consensus understanding of marriage in the Orthodox Tradition, using many quotations from various saints. This anniversary edition is further enhanced by 24 illustrations, 16 of which were expressly commissioned for this book and which include saints not commonly depicted.
Key Features
- Presents the lives of over 180 married saints
- Discusses the consensus understanding of marriage in the Orthodox tradition
- Contains specially commissioned illustrations of saints
- Title: Marriage as a Path to Holiness: Lives of Married Saints
- Authors: David Ford, Mary Ford
- Edition: Second, 20th Anniversary Edition
- Publisher: St. Tikhon’s Monastery Press
- Print Publication Date: 2013
- Logos Release Date: 2015
- Pages: 372
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Married Christian saints › Biography; Orthodox Eastern Church › Prayer-books and devotions--English; Marriage › Religious aspects--Orthodox Eastern Church--Prayer-books and devotions; Devotional calendars › Orthodox Eastern Church
- ISBNs: 9780988457430, 0988457431
- Resource ID: LLS:MRRG20RVSDXPNDD
- Resource Type: Calendar Devotional
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:23:00Z
About the Authors
David Ford is professor of church history at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in South Canaan, Pennsylvania.
Mary Ford is associate professor of New Testament at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in South Canaan, Pennsylvania.