Orthodox Word 187-188 March-June 1996 Vol. 32, Nos. 2-3

(Very Rare, Out of Print Copy. No label on back cover. Pages clean and white. Near New condition, see picture)

Ancient Chinese Foreshadowings of Christ. By Hieromonk Damascene (pp. 56-61).

Christ the Eternal Tao, Introduction (pp. 62-73).

Selections from Christ the Eternal Tao (pp. 74-101).

The Chinese Mind. By Fr. Seraphim Rose (pp. 102-116).

A Letter of Fr. Seraphim Rose to a Spiritual Seeker (pp. 117-119).

Complete Valaam Patericon: Hieromonk Justinian. By Abbot Herman (pp. 120-141).

Serbian Patericon: St. Stephen of Piper. By Fr. Daniel Rogich (pp. 142-150).

Front cover: A 16th-century Russian icon, painted in a style reminiscent of Chinese art, of the Mother of God, "The Mountain Unhewn by Hand of Man." The icon's title refers to the symbol, described in Daniel 2:34-5, of "the stone cut out of a mountain by no human hand," which the Holy Fathers saw as a prophecy of Christ's birth from a Virgin. This image is referred to in chapter 15 of Christ the Eternal Tao (see p. 80).

The Chinese characters on either side of the icon are from a Chinese (Canton) edition of the New Testament, published in China in 1911 by the American Bible Society. The text is John 1:1, 14, which the translators have rendered: "In the beginning was the Tao, and the Tao was with God, and the Tao was God..... And the Tao was made flesh, and dwelt amount us." See an explanation of this on p. 65.

Staple bound, 96 pages. 
Publisher: St. Herman Press, 1996. 
Size: 6" x 8 1/2"  
ISSN: 0030-5839