Here are some Orthodox sources relating to issues in anthropology, relationships, sexuality and gender for further exploration and research into these issues. FtFtL does not necessarily endorse their content; we have attempted to include a broad range of Orthodox reflection on these topics that has been published in English.
- de Beausobre, Iulia: Creative Suffering (1984: SLG Press, Fairacres, Oxford — First published 1940: Dacre Press, London)
- Behr, John: Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement (2000: OUP, Oxford)
- Behr-Siegel, Elisabeth; transl. Bigham, Fr Stephen: The Ministry of Women in the Church (1991: Oakwood Publications, CA)
- Bouteneff, Peter: Beginnings: Ancient Christian Readings of the Biblical Creation Narratives (2008: Baker Academic)
- Chrysostom, St John: Eight Sermons on the Book of Genesis (2004: Holy Cross Orthodox Press)
— On Marriage and Family Life (1986: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press) - Evdokimov, Paul: The Sacrament of Love: The Nuptial Mystery in the Light of the Orthodox Tradition (1985: SVS, Crestwood, NY — originally published in French 1980: Desclee de Brouwer, Paris)
— Woman and the Salvation of the World (SVS Press, Crestwood, NY: 1994 — originally published in French: 1983) - Ford, David C: Women and Men in the Early Church: The Full Views of St John Chrysostom (1996: St Tikhon’s Seminary Press, South Canaan, PA)
- Ford, David and Mary: Marriage as a Path to Holiness: Lives of Married Saints (1994: St Tikhon’s Seminary Press, PA)
- Ford, David and Mary; Siewers, Alfred: Glory and Honor: Orthodox Christian Resources on Marriage (2016: SVS Press, Crestwood, NY)
- Gaist, Byron J: Creative Suffering and the Wounded Healer: Analytical Psychology and Orthodox Christian Theology (2010: Rollinsford, NH: Orthodox Research Institute)
- Hardenbrook, Weldon with Somerville, Terry: Missing from Action: A Powerful Historical Response to the Crisis among American Men (1996, 2nd ed: Conciliar Press, Ben Lomond, CA)
- Hierotheos, Metropolitan of Nafpaktos: Orthodox Psychotherapy: The Science of the Fathers (1994: Birth of the Theotokos Monastery, Levadia, Greece)
- Hopko, Thomas: Christian Faith and Same-Sex Attraction: Eastern Orthodox Reflections (2006: Conciliar Press, Ben Lomond, CA, USA)
- John of Damascus, St; transl. Louth, Andrew: Three Treatises on the Divine Images (2003: St Vladimirs Seminary Press)
- Larchet, Jean-Claude: Mental Disorders and Spiritual Healing: Teachings from the Early Christian East (2005: Sophia Perennis, Hillsdale, NY, USA)
— The Theology of Illness (2002: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, Crestwood, NY, USA) - Mathewes-Green, Frederica: Gender: Men, Women, Sex, Feminism (2002: Conciliar Press)
- Maximos the Confessor, Saint; transl. Blowers, Paul M. & Wilken, Robert Louis: On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ (2003: St Vladimirs Seminary Press)
- Meyendorff, John: Marriage: An Orthodox Perspective (1975: SVS, Crestwood, NY)
- Moberly, Elizabeth R: Homosexuality: A New Christian Ethic (2006: The Lutterworth Press, Cambridge, UK)
- Sherrard, Philip : Christianity and Eros (1995: Denise Harvey, Limni, Evia, Greece — originally published 1976: SPCK, London)
- Thermos, Fr Vasileios: In Search of the Person: “True and False Self” According to Donald Winicott and St Gregory Palamas (2002: Montreal, Canada: Alexander Press)
- Solovyov, Vladimir: The Meaning of Love (1985: Lindisfarne Press, Hudson, NY — original English translation 1945: Centenary Press, London — originally published 1894 in Russian)
- Symeon the New Theologian, Saint; transl. Rose, Fr Seraphim: The First-Created Man (2013: St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood; Fourth revised edition)
- Yannaras, Christos: Variations on the Song of Songs (2005: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, Brookline, MA, USA)
- Puhalo, Archbishop Lazar etal: The Mystery of Gender and Human Sexuality: The proceedings of a conference of The Canadian Centre for Biblical and Patristic Studies at the Monastery of All Saints of North America, Dewdney, B.C. (1996: Synaxis Press, Dewdney, BC, Canada)
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