Eastern Light Publishing, LLC

02/20/2023

The Rudder - Volume II Book Preview:
https://easternlightpublishing.files.wordpress.com/2023/02/the-rudder-volume-ii-preview.pdf

02/20/2023

Now available from Eastern Light Publishing and Lulu Press. Volume II of "THE RUDDER (PEDALION) - of the Metaphorical Ship of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church". For more information including a sample PDF and ordering information, visit: https://easternlightpublishing.com/2023/02/19/the-rudder-pedalion-volume-ii/

12/27/2022

A launch page for the new book (THE RUDDER) which contains links on where to go to purchase the book in paperback or hardcover formats, as well as a link to the PDF preview of the book.

Volume II should be available in the next 2 to 4 weeks.

New Book Just Released 12/25/22. All of the Sacred Canons of the Holy Orthodox Church (the Holy Apostles, the Seven Ecumenical Councils, the Holy Fathers and additional Councils) AVAILABLE AT THE F…

12/27/2022

New release from Eastern Light Publishing. The Rudder (Pedalion) Volume I. Includes the canons of the Holy Apostles and Seven Ecumenical Councils. Details on how to purchase will be included in another post. Here is a preview of the cover of the book, along with a link to the PDF preview.

https://easternlightpublishing.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/the-rudder-pendalion-vol-1-book-preview.pdf

06/06/2022

The Eastern Light Publishing website was down the past year due to transitioning to a new web host service. We are happy to announce it is back online.

Links to all of the books for previewing or purchase can be found on our bookstore page.

https://easternlightpublishing.com/bookstore/

Eastern Light Pub. Books Available The following books are available for purchase from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Lulu or other online e-book retailers. All titles are also available to purchase i…

06/04/2022

New release from Eastern Light Publishing. "Hellenism and the Unfinished Revolution" by Apostolos Makrakis. Available in Paperback and PDF formats.

Hellenism and the Unfinished Revolution is a series of twenty addresses delivered by Apostolos Makrakis in Concord Square in Athens Greece in the year 1866. These speeches highlight the early development of his (Eastern Orthodox) Historicist view of the biblical prophecies, and this historical method of interpreting prophecy was expanded further in his full commentary on the Book of Revelation in 1882, The work shows Makrakis was a major proponent of the “Megali Idea” and the restoration of the Byzantine Empire for the young Greek nation. The ideas expressed herein in this work are just as relevant today as they were in the nineteenth century, fully consistent with the prophecies found in the Byzantine Apocalyptic Tradition, which foretell a coming blessed era for the Orthodox faith. Makrakis provides a possible framework to reawaken the spiritual slumber of the Greek nation through the message of the Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to finally achieve the completion of the Greek Revolution which began 200 years ago.

“The Revolution of 1821 indeed remains unfinished. It is a beginning not an end. It is a call to the re-awakening of the universality and catholicity of Orthodoxy. It summons all Orthodox to vigilance against all outward and inner forces that threaten the integrity and purity of the Orthodox Faith. The Revolution of 1821 is essentially a spiritual revolution. It aims at the recovery of an Orthodox Civilization and its perfection. It looks to continuing where Byzantium left off.” – Fr. Eusebius Stephanou

“I could foresee the impending fall and disintegration of the Turkish Ottoman Empire since 1866. This accounts for my decision to come to Athens. I came to awaken those who were asleep and to proclaim how our country, by preparing and consolidating itself, could best and most quickly bring to completion the unfinished and imperfect accomplishment of the Greek Revolution of 1821. Twenty addresses on this subject were delivered in Concord Square of Athens, Greece. These addresses attracted the attention of large crowds of citizens who listened and applauded with delight and enthusiasm.” – Apostolos Makrakis

For a PDF preview of the book (30 pages):
https://apostolosmakrakis.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/hellenism-and-the-unfinished-revolution-preview-1.pdf

The full PDF is for sale here:
https://payhip.com/b/tDmwc

The paperback today can be ordered from Lulu:
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/apostolos-makrakis/hellenism-and-the-unfinished-revolution/paperback/product-pq6ry2.html?page=1&pageSize=4

It is also available at Barnes & Noble online: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hellenism-and-the-unfinished-revolution-apostolos-makrakis/1141599629?ean=9781949940206

For more info, visit:
https://apostolosmakrakis.com/new-book-release-hellenism-and-the-unfinished-revolution/

08/14/2020

The Holy Orthodoxy Church – Her Salvationary Nature, Doctrines, and Fountain of Faith

PDF Preview of book:
https://apostolosmakrakis.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/the_holy_orthodox_church_makrakis_preview.pdf

Available at Barnes & Noble for the Nook or Paperback:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-holy-orthodox-church-apostolos-makrakis/1134790727

08/14/2020

Now available for the Nook E-reader at barnesandnoble.com.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/interpretation-of-the-entire-new-testament-apostolos-makrakis/1001260715?ean=2940162901426

08/11/2020

Now available at Amazon.com in Paperback or for the Kindle E-reader.

Interpretation of the Entire New Testament: Volume One - The Four Gospels, Book One: The Gospel According to St. Matthew

08/10/2020

Book Preview of "The Gospel According to Matthew" by Apostolos Makrakis. The PDF sample of the paperback can be downloaded here:

https://apostolosmakrakis.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/the-gospel-according-to-st.-matthew-by-a.-makrakis-preview-1.pdf

08/09/2020

A sneak peak of the cover our new forthcoming release at Eastern Light Publishing. An interpretation and verse-by-verse commentary of the Gospel of St. Matthew by Apostolos Makrakis. Should go to print in the next week.

03/28/2020

Book Preview of "Three Great Friday Sermons"... available in paperback and Kindle formats on Amazon.

https://apostolosmakrakis.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/three_great_friday_sermons_makrakis_preview.pdf

Various sermons on various subjects, which includes a study on the Lord’s Passion and other topics including:

1. Three Great Friday Sermons;
2. Three Sermons on the Death on the Cross and the Glorious Resurrection;
3. The Ascension into Heaven;
4. Christ, Announcing His Nature;
5. All the Parables of the Gospel;
6. The Truth in Christianity;
7. The Entrance of the Theotokos and Testimonies Concerning the Holy Virgin from the Gospels of Matthew and John

“Of great benefit to those who read and study them thoughtfully, and particularly on the day of the Lord’s Passion.”

03/04/2020

02/04/2020

Father Anastasios' new book now available from Amazon in paperback and kindle format! https://www.amazon.com/dp/1949940179

Father Anastasios Kihali provides a complete historical analysis of how the African Orthodox Church was founded in East Africa through the early movements under British rule in the early 1900s until the later Greek missionary movements, with focus on the nations of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. The...

02/02/2020

Coming soon from Eastern Light Publishing - THE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN WITNESS IN EAST AFRICA by the Rev. Dr. Archimandrite Anastasios Elekiah Andago Kihali.

Will be available in Paperback, Amazon Kindle and other E-reader (EPUB) formats.

Father Anastasios is a priest under the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria serving in the Church of Kenya. He received his Master of Divinity (M. Div.) in 1993, with Distinction and also his Theology Master (Th. M) 2002 in Canon Law and History with high Distinction, from Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline Massachusetts. In addition, he received his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) 2009, in History and Missiology from the Aristotelean State University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Here are some sample key points raised in the book. The reader will find many of his suggested solutions to the current issues are equally applicable to other diasporas.

"Researchers need to appreciate the suffering that the Greek Orthodox Church past through since the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD, while at the same time we need to caution ourselves, as Orthodox Christians that we cannot not afford to continue hiding behind the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. The Orthodox Church has come to an age, a new era where she is no longer imprisoned or enslaved by her tormenting, imperial masters but has been now a free entity for over a century. She needs to begin in earnest to formulate her theology clearly on Ecclesiology and Mission. She need to appreciate also the fact that now she is a mother to many new found Orthodox communities all over the world that are now crying for fair treatment and freedom under her Greek leadership, and that she finds herself today in the powerful new position unlike the Ottoman age, where she is the one shepherding and controlling the Christian Empire of those new Universal Orthodox communities and she risks becoming an imperial enslaver and master herself, unless she exercises the wisdom of Solomon in the governance of the same. (...) It’s also time that the Orthodox Church should come out of her past enslaver mode, move out of her compounded and restricted enclosures, caves, her fears of the rest of cosmos that seems always to be plotting against her somehow, and as brave soldiers, swiftly move to confront the present mission-world challenging agendas and the pressing needs of Church in mission today. At the same time, remembering that she is not alone in the Christian world but that she shares it with other faiths that have stuck their legitimate claim also on the mission of Christ, and that we belong to a greater community of the kingdom of God that has no spiritual boundaries known to the human intellect.

The Orthodox churches in missions are challenged to transform themselves into Christ-like entities full of love for the other and driven by bountiful mercies of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The Orthodox Church must cut itself out in the mission field as a faith that brings true and authentically certified Christian message, bound by an ancient tradition that demands that its leaders be spiritually endowed and morally inspired and balanced in mission. Our Orthodox Missions must be recognized the world over as more open to other races and not the opposite as it presently and demonstrate its awareness of racial spheres and their problematic. Its leaders must surely be guided by the Spirit of Christ at all times and be seen in practice to exude it with full saving force of new visions, thought, and projections in mission that must be imbued with modern mission practical trends without necessarily conforming to secularism in tune with the changing world thought, life style and the societal needs of its mission communities and their desires and demands.

The Orthodox missionary agencies need to preach not only the unity of the Church that St. Paul talks about in Ephesians, but also to preach an African culture friendly Gospel of unity in love in its missionary administration. The church needs to open up its charity in a more selfless manner and stretch its open and loving hands in gentleness and patience to Africans, to embrace them and to reassure them of its love and recognition of them as equal partners in the holy communion of the unity of faith through the saving mysteries of Christ Jesus. I strongly recommend that this effort be undertaken in order that we are together united as one body of the Orthodox Church, put racial differences aside and seek to bridge the gap between Greeks and Africans which was created during the animosities of the 1960’s and 1970’s.

The Orthodox Church does not seem to have a clear mission theology model after the ancient church of the antiquity. Either our missionary endeavors were never planned, but rudimentary and spearheaded by God-fearing and very spiritual and wise leaders, or hard nuts of those times. That era of wisdom and controversy, so to speak, that seemed to have officially drowned its curtains, ended by the missionary efforts of St. Photios the Great in the Ninth Century of sending out missionaries. In the cause of time there were isolated missionary thinkers and models of action like that championed by Saint Cosmas Aitolos of Northern Greece and Archbishop Anastasios of our own time in Africa and Albania.

The Orthodox Church stands now in dire need to develop a modern day theology of mission that is practical, adhering to modern contextual societal mission needs, seeking to stand with indigenous peoples in their daily life struggles for spiritual human freedom, in search for their social, economic reliance, good political governance, religious efficiency and sufficiency freedoms. Such a mission theology would seek not only to herald God message of Agape love in freedom, but also to seek to alleviate the peoples social difficulties like disease such as: HIV/AIDS, malaria, cancer, poverty eradication, famines, hunger, and other calamitous upheavals in the mission fields.

In order to accompish this, African leadership must be open to the idea of reconciliation and strive to honestly seek to reconcile with their Greek brothers and sisters for the sake of the unity of our faith, and its growth and spread in Africa. For Africans have wronged Greeks also by creating an atmosphere of war in the country that led to suspicion and mistrust on the part of the Greek Diaspora and missionaries, who thus sought to close themselves in their own enclave that gave birth to the present indifference on acute African needs in mission. Greek hierarch on the other hand need to acknowledge that they have acted aggressively and indifferently by neglecting the African theological, spiritual and administrative needs in the past and present, thus the need for the Church to embark on an open and honest missionary effort to reach out to African leadership for reconciliation, in order to right all the wrong that may have committed, to move towards seeking to bring African on board and to incorporate African thought, practical input, presence and principles in mission. This will help towards an appeasing to the disgruntled African majority and will I believe lead to reconciliation in the Greek Patriarchate.

The policy of race either way is greatly lacking in the critical understanding of the early Christian tenet of human care and loving approach in mission, and the spirit of equality expressed in the Bible of there being no Jew nor Greek, nor circumcised nor gentile but one community united by the blood of Jesus Christ shed on the cross for the redemption of the whole world. Therefore, the author Fr. Anastasios submits, there is neither black Africa, nor Greek in the service of Agape in the mission house, but only the abundance of the agape of Christ and the economy of the Holy Spirit in light of the Orthodox Christian canon law should abound among us.

Some missionaries are under pressure to preserve that which their ecclesial cultural identity in the diaspora represents missionary ethnicity, but this is a misconceived notion. The Greek missionary should not be worried that the Church is going to lose its Greek identity in Africa, but rather he should be worried that the new African church may lose its Africaness and become foreign to its local cultural identity. Orthodoxy throughout the ages always influenced and transformed cultures and it has never been the reverse. The message of the good news of Christ is a transforming agent and is never swallowed by a mission field culture that it aims to transform, because it has the power to transform cultures without having to force itself to assert its human dimension.

A policy of preservation needs to be rejected by Greeks and blacks of Africa or any race any where for that matter, in the world alike. This policy is bent on pure racist tendencies, ethnic bias and endeavours disguised as a missionary endeavour on the continent to evangelize black Africa. If Alexandria is sincerely committed one hundred percent to the mission of evangelization and the conversion of Black Africa to the faith, then truly they will have no problem to put ecclesial structures and black African leadership in place to foster their vision and agenda in mission. But as it is now this skewed policy of preservation is lacking in mission vision and is the one big obstacle that is keeping Orthodoxy from spreading fast, from taking root in many parts of Africa, from embracing modern logical administrative stractures of governace, and it has held the church captive and stagnated it, unable to realize tangible development conversant with its mission duration in Africa over the past ten or so decades. This policy is the one single reason why the Orthodox Church structurally is struggling to grow in terms of preaching and evangelization, and conversion of the masses.

It is imperative that in order for the Orthodox Church Universal to make any tangible contribution in Africa, it must move out of its cells, caves, ethnic nationalistic and racial parameters: extend her arm openly in a truly universal manner and spirit, to reach out in full unpretentious agape love, and embrace the otherness of the cosmos, Africa. Only in this way will the great faith of the fathers free itself from its perceived narrow traditional national ethnic enclosures that presently hold it hostage and be able to realize its full mission potential, or else it will continue to play self-preservation games as the 21st century slowly unfolds and move past it."

12/15/2019

Very excited to once again be working with Father Anastasios Elekiah Kihali (a priest of the Greek Patriarchate of Alexandria) to get his PhD Dissertation published. Here is a a preview of the title page. We expect to release it in Paperback and Kindle/Epub formats in the next few weeks.

12/01/2019

Now available from Eastern Light Publishing - "Challenges Facing the Orthodox Church Movements in East Africa" by Father Anastasios Elekiah Kihali

Available from Amazon in Paperback and Kindle E-reader formats

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0825CQMJ7
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1949940152

Also available in EPUB e-book formats from Barnes & Noble, Kobo and Apple Books.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/challenges-facing-the-orthodox-church-movements-in-east-africa
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/challenges-facing-the-orthodox-church-movements-in-east-africa-elekiah-andago-kihali/1135239791?ean=2940163609024

Fr. Anastasios Elekiah Andago Kihali investigates the nature and origin of the problems in the history of the Orthodox Church in East Africa, specifically the history and problems up to the present day with an emphasis on nation of Kenya. This work is not just a mere chronology of the history of ...

11/29/2019

It is a pleasure and truly an honor Eastern Light Publishing to offer for sale, a new book written by a very devout servant of Christ, Dr. Anastasios Elekiah Andago Kihali from Kenya.

Fr. Elekiah has written a book titled "Challenges Facing the Orthodox Church Movements in East Africa".

Below is an image preview of the book cover. It should be available on Paperback and Kindle formats on Amazon, as well as other on-line book retailers in the next few days. Stay tuned!

About the Author:
The Very Rev. Dr. Archimandrite Anastasios (M.Div.,Th.M, PhD) is a Kenyan Orthodox archimandrite priest serving in the Church of Kenya. He is a graduate of our Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology. He also graduated from St Makarios Patriarchal Seminary in Nairobi, as well as receiving a Doctor of Theology in Missiology from the Aristotle University of Thessalonica. He served as a missionary in Albania for three years under Archbishop Anastasios, his spiritual father, and has been serving in his home country of Kenya since 2010. He is presently the Dean of Embu in the Orthodox Diocese of Nyeri and Mount Kenya Region. In 2018, he established the St. Paul’s Godjope Hills Academy and Orphanage, an Elementary and Middle School in Migori County, Western Kenya, which presently has 150 students, of which 50 receive scholarships to attend. He is presently trying to raise moneys to complete the building program of the school, and support the scholarships given. Elekiah Andago Kihali is the sixth of 10 children of Mzee Hosea Kihali and the late Mama Peris Gweyani Kihali

11/27/2019

Some very exciting news for Eastern Light Publishing.

Here is a sneak peak into the title page of a new release forthcoming in the next few weeks.

It is a study the history of the Orthodox Church in East Africa, by Archimandrite Anastasios (Elekiah Andago Kihali). Such a fitting topic and title on Orthodoxy in East Africa, by a young publishing company dedicated to bringing you the Light of Orthodoxy on various topics from the East.

Stay tune for more in the coming weeks!

11/13/2019

Check out Proto Daniel Rogich's book which is a first ever English translation of St. Nikolai Velimirovic “ON THE INCARNATION” - On sale at Amazon.

11/12/2019

https://twitter.com/EasternLightPub

Follow the Eastern Light on Twitter!

11/11/2019

https://www.pinterest.com/easternlightpublishing/
Eastern Light is now on Pinterest !

11/11/2019

New Orthodox Podcast for those interested. Like their page!

11/11/2019

https://apostolosmakrakis.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/freemasonry_masonic_diploma_makrakis_preview.pdf

Check out our PDF Book Preview of "Freemasonry Known By The Masonic Diploma".

Available at various online stores here:
https://apostolosmakrakis.com/freemasonry-known-by-the-masonic-diploma/

11/10/2019

A shout out to our friend Dr. Brock Hollett and his recent book "Debunking Preterism: How Over-Realized Eschatology Misses the Not Yet of Bible Prophecy"

Available in Paperback and Kindle formats:

https://www.amazon.com/Debunking-Preterism-Over-Realized-Eschatology-Prophecy/dp/0988931613

Dr. Brock D. Hollett formerly embraced preterism while earning his Master of Divinity at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2000 because the preterist perspective seemed to provide him with coherent arguments regarding the time statements of the New Testament. Persuaded by the arguments p...

11/09/2019

https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Myths-Atheism-polemical-rationality/dp/1497441579

Author Willliam Vincent provides an Orthodox Christian perspective on many of the myths of Atheism. Avaiable in paperback or kindle e-reader format from Amazon.

11/09/2019

https://apostolosmakrakis.com/proofs-of-the-authenticity-of-the-septuagint/

11/09/2019

https://apostolosmakrakis.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/interpretation_of_revelation_makrakis_preview.pdf

Check out our PDF Sample of Apostolos Makrakis's complete commentary on Revelation.

"All of the important questions and answers have been brought forward for the first time by this largest ever Eastern Orthodox commentary on the Apocalypse. According to the interpretation advanced by Makrakis, many prophecies have been fulfilled with precision and accuracy, with a never-before-seen Christological emphasis on key events described through the history of the Church including the rise of every major heresy for the last 2000 years"

11/08/2019

Follow us on Instagram!

https://www.instagram.com/easternlightpublishing/