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Fall In Love With Photios,
D.S. White accomplishes the feat of a concise, complete and readable presentation of a complicated man who is a Saint to the East, anathema to the West, and the most extraordinary and illustrious mind of his time.Saint Photios of Constantinople, "an intimate of the powerful, a courtier, an intellectual, an encyclopedist, a teacher, and a voracious student of anything that books could offer", has been extensively studied by scholars for centuries; profusely quoted and catalogued, worshiped and excommunicated.But nowhere does he come through as completely yet understandably as he does in this small book.Photios's own writings, presended here in a collection of 52 of his letters, reveal a man of passion and compassion, great knowledge and deep faith who still brings forth our admiration, even as he continues to attract the scorn of those he called "heretics" over a thousand years ago.
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Patriarch Photios of Constantinople: His Life, Scholarly Contributions and Correspondence Together With a Translation of 52 of His Letter... by Despina Stratoudaki White (Paperback - June 1981)
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