Steven Thomas

At the Lighting of the Lamps

Preaching & Worship

“These beautiful poems, so typical of the Early Christian spirituality of light, here receive a lucid translation by an Orthodox Archpriest, scholar, and theologian. One would have to ransack the vast continent of Christian liturgical prayer to have found these radiant gems for oneself, yet here they are collected in one small and luminous volume. The liturgical poetry of the Early Church expresses the whole heart of the doctrine of Christianity, since prayer, poetry, and liturgy are essentially intertwined. These elegant free verse translations closely follow the Greek, without ever being stiff or stilted. Highly recommended both to scholars and those who want to use them in prayer.”