The Soul After Death

ORTHODOX SOURCES (IN ENGLISH)

Adamnan, St., Life of St. Columba, tr. by Wentworth Huyshe, London, George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1939.

Ambrose, St., “Death as a Good,” in Seven Exegetical Works, tr. by Michael P. McHugh, Catholic University of America Press, 1972.

— “On Belief in the Resurrection,” in The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, vol. 10, Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Mich., 1969.

Anonymous Monk of Whitby, The Earliest Life of Gregory the Great, tr. by Bertram Colgrave, University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas, 1968.

Athanasius the Great, St., Life of St. Anthony the Great, Eastern Orthodox Books, Willits, Calif., 1976.

Augustine, Blessed, “Care for the Dead,” in Treatises on Marriage and Other Subjects, The Fathers of the Church, vol. 27, New York, 1955.

— The City of God, Modern Library ed., New York, 1955.

— “The Divination of Demons,” in Treatises on Marriage..., New York, 1955.

Basil the Great, St., Exegetic Homilies, Catholic University of America Press, 1963.

Bede, Venerable, A History of the English Church and People, tr. by Leo Sherley-Price, Penguin Books, Baltimore, 1968.

Cavarnos, Constantine, The Future Life According to Orthodox Teaching, Center for Traditionalist Orthodox Studies, Etna, Calif., 1985.

Cyril of Jerusalem, St., Catechetical Lectures, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, vol. 7, Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Mich., 1973.

Chrysostom, St. John, Homilies on St. Matthew, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Mich., 1973.

Climacus, St. John, Ladder of Divine Ascent, tr. by Archimandrite Lazarus Moore, Eastern Orthodox Books, Willits, Calif., 1977

— Ladder of Divine Ascent, revised ed. by Holy Transfiguration Monastery,

Boston, 1979.

Damascene, St. John, Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, The Fathers of the Church, New York, 1958.

Dorotheus of Gaza, St. Abba, Discourses and Sayings, tr. by Eric P. Wheeler, Cistercian Publications, Kalamazoo, Mich., 1977.

Emerton, Ephraim, tr., The Letters of Saint Boniface, Octagon Books (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), New York, 1973.

Fastre, J. A. M., S.J., tr., The Acts of the Early Martyrs, Fifth Series, Philadelphia, 1878.

Gregory the Great (the Dialogist), St., Dialogues, Fathers of the Church, New York, 1959.

— Morals on the Book of Job, Oxford, John Henry Parker, 1844.

Gregory of Nyssa, St., “On the Soul and the Resurrection,” in The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, vol. 5, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Mich., 1972.

Hierotheos (Vlachos), Metropolitan of Nafpaktos, Life After Death, Birth of the Theotokos Monastery, Levadia, Greece, 1996.

John (Maximovitch), Archbishop, “Life After Death,” in The Orthodox Word, 1971, no. 4.

Lenten Triodion, The, tr. Mother Mary and Archimandrite Kallistos Ware, Faber and Faber, London, 1977.

Little Russian Philokalia, vol. 1: St. Seraphim of Sarov, St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, Platina, Calif., 1991.

Lives of Saints:

Sts. Cyprian and Justina, in The Orthodox Word, 1976, no. 5.

St. Salvius of Albi, in The Orthodox Word, 1977, no. 5.

Sts. Timothy and Maura, in Orthodox Life, May-June, 1978.

Macarius the Great, St., Fifty Spiritual Homilies, tr. by A. J. Mason, Eastern Orthodox Books, Willits, Calif., 1974.

Mitrophan, Monk, How Our Departed Ones Live, and How We Shall Live After Death, vol. 1, tr. by Archpriest John Shaw, published by Archpriest Stefan Pavlenko, Burlingame, Calif., 2005.

Octoechos, Sunday, tr. by Mother Mary, Bussy-en-Othe, France, n.d.

Orthodox Life (texts on life after death). 1978, no. 1.

Panteleimon, Archimandrite, comp., Eternal Mysteries Beyond the Grave, Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville, N.Y., 1968. Reprinted 1996.

The Philokalia, tr. by Palmer-Sherrard-Ware, Faber and Faber, London, 1979.

The Sayings of the Desert Fathers, tr. by Benedicta Ward, A. R. Mowbray & Co., London, 1975.

Savva, Bishop of Edmonton, Blessed John: The Chronicle of the Veneration of Archbishop John Maximovitch, St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, Platina, Calif., 1979.

Sederholm, Fr. Clement, Elder Leonid of Optina, St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, Platina, Calif., 1990.

Seraphim (Rose), Fr., and Fr. Herman (Podmoshensky), Blessed John the Wonderworker, St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, Platina, Calif., 1987.

The Spiritual Instructions of St. Seraphim of Sarov, St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, Platina, Calif., 1978.

Symeon the New Theologian, St., The Sin of Adam, St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, Platina, Calif., 1979. Reprinted as The First-Created Man, 1994.

Uekskuell, K., “Unbelievable for Many but Actually a True Occurrence,” in Orthodox Life, July-August, 1976.

Vasilios (Bakogiannis), Archimandrite, After Death, Tertios Publications, Katerini, Greece, 1995.

Vassiliadis, Nikolaos P., The Mystery of Death, The Orthodox Brotherhood of Theologians “The Savior,” Athens, Greece, 1993.

Znosko, Vladimir, Hieroschemamonk Feofil (Theophilus of Kiev), tr. by Lev Puhalo and Vassily Novakshonoff, Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville, N.Y., 1970.

ORTHODOX SOURCES (IN RUSSIAN AND SLAVONIC)

Athanasia Logacheva, Life of a Nun, in Soul-Profiting Reading, June, 1902.

Avraam (Reidman), Schema-archimandrite, comp., The Path of the Soul After Death, “Palomnik,” Moscow, 2007.

Barsanuphius and John, Sts., Guidance in Spiritual Life (in Questions and Answers), Moscow, 1855.

Basil the Great, St., Complete Works, Soikin ed., St. Petersburg, 1911.

Brianchaninov, Bishop Ignatius, Collected Works, vol. 3, Tuzov ed., St.

Petersburg, 1883.

Cassian, St. John, Conferences, tr. by Bishop Peter, Moscow, 1892.

Chrysostom, St. John, Collected Works, vol. 10:1, St. Petersburg, 1904.

Dudko, Priest Dimitry, Sunday Talks on the Resurrection, St. Job Brotherhood, Montreal, 1977.

Ephraim the Syrian, St., Collected Works, vol. 3, Moscow, 1882.

Euchologion (Book of Needs), Moscow, Synodal Printshop, 1902 (reprinted by Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville, N.Y., 1961), Part I.

Florovsky, Rev. Georges, Ways of Russian Theology, Paris, 1937.

Gregory the Great (the Dialogist), St., Homilies on the Gospels, tr. by Hieromonk Clement Sederholm, St. Petersburg, 1860.

Gregory the Theologian, St., Complete Works, Soikin ed., St. Petersburg, 1911.

Lenten Triodion (Slavonic), Vienna, 1855.

Lives of Saints (according to St. Demetrius of Rostov), Moscow, Synodal

Printshop, 1902.

St. Andrew the Fool for Christ of Constantinople (Oct. 2).

St. Basil the New (March 26).

Sts. Cyprian and Justina (Oct. 2).

St. Mark of Thrace (April 5).

St. Niphon of Constantia (Dec. 23).

St. Patricius of Prussa (May 19).

St. Perpetua (Feb. 1).

St. Proclus (Nov. 20).

Taxiotes the Soldier (March 28).

Sts. Timothy and Maura (May 3).

Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow, Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, vol. 2, St.

Petersburg, 1883.

Mark of Ephesus, St., First and Second Homilies on Purgatorial Fire, in Archimandrite Amvrossy Pogodin, St. Mark of Ephesus and the Union of Florence, Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville, N.Y., 1963.

Mitrophan, Monk, How Our Departed Ones Live, and How We Shall Live After Death, vol. 1, St. Petersburg, 1897.

Octoechos (Slavonic), Vienna, 1855.

Sederholm, Hieromonk Clement, Optina Elder Leonid, St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, Platina, Calif., 1976.

Theophan the Recluse, Bishop, Commentary on the Second Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul to the Corinthians, Moscow, 1894.

— The One-Hundred-Eighteenth Psalm (Interpretation), Moscow, 1891 (reprinted by Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville, N.Y., 1976).

— Letter to a Dying Woman, in Soul-Profiting Reading, August, 1894.

ORTHODOX SOURCES (IN GREEK)

Cavarnos, Constantine, The Future Life According to Orthodox Teaching, Ekdoseis “Orthodoxou Typou,” Athens, Greece, 1984.

Hierotheos (Vlachos), Metropolitan of Nafpaktos, Life After Death, Nativity of the Theotokos Monastery, Levadia, Greece, 1995.

Livanos, Christos Constantine, Do the Toll-Houses Exist? Hellenic Orthodox Apostolic Brotherhood “St. Athanasios the Great,” Toronto, Canada, 1998.

Vasilios (Bakogiannis), Archimandrite, After Death, Tertios Publications, Katerini, Greece, 1994.

Vassiliadis, Nikolaos P., The Mystery of Death, The Orthodox Brotherhood of Theologians “The Savior,” Athens, Greece, 1993.

ORTHODOX SOURCES (IN SERBIAN)

Justin (Popovich), Archimandrite, The Orthodox Philosophy of Truth: The Dogmatics of the Orthodox Church, vol. 3, Belgrade, 1978.

“AFTER-DEATH” BOOKS; WRITINGS ON OCCULTISM AND SPIRITISM

Apuleius, The Golden Ass, tr. by Robert Graves, Farrar, Straus and Young, New York, 1951.

Barrett, Sir William, Death-Bed Visions, Methuen, London, 1926.

Blackmore, Simon A., S.J., Spiritism: Facts and Frauds, Benziger Brothers, New York, 1924.

Budge, E. A. Wallis, tr., The (Egyptian) Book of the Dead, Bell Publishing Co., New York, 1960.

Crookall, Robert, Out-of-the-Body Experiences, The Citadel Press, Secaucus, N.J., 1970.

Eliade, M., Shamanism, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1961.

Evans-Wentz, W.Y., ed., The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1960.

Fiore, Charles and Landsburg, Alan, Death Encounters, Bantam Books, New York, 1979.

Ford, Arthur, The Life Beyond Death, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1971.

Fortune, Dion, Through the Gates of Death, Samuel Weiser Inc., New York, 1977.

Green, Celia, Out-of-the-Body Experiences, Ballantine Books, New York, 1975.

Greenhous, Herbert B., The Astral Journey, Avon Books, New York, 1976.

Grof, Stanislav and Halifax, Joan, The Human Encounter with Death, E. P.

Dutton, New York, 1977.

Hill, J. Arthur, Spiritualism, Its History, Phenomena, and Doctrine, George H.

Doran Co., New York, 1919.

Holzer, Hans, Beyond This Life, Pinnacle Books, Los Angeles, 1977.

Hynek, J. Allen and Vallee, Jacques, The Edge of Reality, Henry Regnery Co., Chicago, 1975.

Jung, C. G., The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1955.

Kubler-Ross, Elizabeth, “Death Does not Exist,” in The Co-Evolution Quarterly, Summer, 1977.

— On Death and Dying, Macmillan Publishing Co., New York, 1969.

— Articles on:

Kemf, Elizabeth, in East-West Journal, March, 1978.

Kronisch, Lennie, in Yoga Journal, September-October, 1976.

Laughingbird, Gaea, in Berkeley Monthly, June, 1978.

Pearre, James, in the San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle, Nov. 14, 1976.

San Diego Union, Sept. 2, 1979.

Loehr, Franklin, Diary After Death, Pillar Books, New York, 1976.

Matson, Archie, Afterlife: Reports from the Threshold of Death, Harper & Row, New York, 1977.

Monroe, Robert A., Journeys Out of the Body, Anchor Books (Doubleday),

Garden City, New York, 1977.

Moody, Raymond A., Jr., Life after Life, Mockingbird Books, Atlanta, 1975.

— Reflections on Life After Life, A Bantam-Mockingbird Book, 1977.

Muldoon, Sylvan and Carrington, Hereward, The Phenomena of Astral

Projection, Samuel Weiser, New York, 1972.

Osis, Karl, and Haroldsson, Erlendur, At the Hour of Death, Avon Books, New York, 1977.

Powell, A. E., The Astral Body, Theosophical Publishing House, Wheaton, Ill.,

1972.

Psychics, by the Editors of Psychic Magazine, Harper & Row, New York, 1972.

Sherman, Harold, You Live After Death, Fawcett Books, New York, 1972.

Smith, Susy, Life is Forever, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1974.

— Out-of-Body Experiences, Dell Publishing Co., New York, 1969.

Spraggett, Allen, The Case for Immortality, New American Library, New York, 1974.

Swedenborg, Emanuel, Heaven and Hell, tr. by George F. Dole, Swedenborg Foundation, Inc., New York, 1976.

Trobridge, George, Swedenborg: Life and Teaching, Swedenborg Foundation, New York, 1978.

Van Dusen, Wilson, The Presence of Other Worlds, Harper & Row, New York,

1973.

Walker, Benjamin, Beyond the Body: The Human Double and the Astral Plane, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1974.

Weiss, Jess E., The Vestibule, Pocket Books, New York, 1977.

Wheeler, David R., Journey to the Other Side, Ace Books, New York, 1977.

ATTEMPTS AT CHRISTIAN APPROACHES AND EVALUATIONS — MOSTLY EVANGELICAL PROTESTANT

Baker, H. A. Visions Beyond the Veil, Whitaker House, Monroeville, Pa., 1973.

Brooke, Tal, The Other Side of Death, Tyndale House, Wheaton, Ill., 1979.

Eby, Richard E., Caught Up into Paradise, private printing, c. 1978.

Ernest, Victor H., I Talked with Spirits, Tyndale House, Wheaton, Ill., 1975.

Faust, Floyd, Life Death Life, The Upper Room, Nashville, Tenn., 1977.

Ford, Marvin, On the Other Side, Logos International, Plainfield, N.J., 1978.

Graham, Billy, Angels, God’s Secret Messengers, Doubleday, New York, 1975.

Lewis, C. S., Miracles, The Macmillan Co., New York, 1967.

Levitt, Zola, and Weldon, John, Is There Life After Death? Harvest House

Publishers, Irvine, Calif., 1977.

Lindsay, Hal, Life After Death, Christ for the Nations, Dallas, Texas, 1977.

Malz, Betty, My Glimpse of Eternity, Chosen Books, Waco, Texas, 1977.

Myers, John, ed., Voices from the Edge of Eternity, Spire Books, Old Tappan, N.J., 1973.

Peale, Norman Vincent, The Power of Positive Thinking, Prentice-Hall, Inc., New York, 1953.

Rawlings, Maurice, Beyond Death’s Door, Thomas Nelson, Inc., Nashville, 1978.

Ritchie, George C., Jr., Return from Tomorrow, Chosen Books, Waco, Texas, 1978.

Sandberg, Anne, Seeing the Invisible: What Happens after You Die? Logos International, Plainfield, N.J., 1977.

Swihart, Phillip J., The Edge of Death, Inter-Varsity Press, Downers Grove, Ill., 1978.

Winter, David, Hereafter: What Happens After Death? Harold Shaw Publishers, Wheaton, Ill., 1977.

Wilkerson, Ralph, Beyond and Back, Melodyland Publishers, Anaheim, Calif., 1977.

RUSSIAN EDITIONS OF THE SOUL AFTER DEATH

Dusha posle smerti (The Soul After Death), samizdat, Moscow, 1984.

Dusha posle smerti , Moscow, 1991.

Dusha posle smerti, joint publication of the editorial staff of “Skete” and the

Stavropol regional committee of the Red Cross Society, Moscow, 1992.

Dusha posle smerti, “Glagol,” St. Petersburg, 1994.

Dusha posle smerti. Moscow: Sretensky Monastery, 1997, 2007.

Prinosheniye pravoslavnogo amerikantsa. Sbornik trudov ottsa Serafima

Platinskogo (An offering of a contemporary American: the collected works of Fr. Seraphim of Platina) [includes The Soul After Death], Valaam Society of America—Russian Mission, Moscow, 1998, 2001.

Dusha posle smerti, “Palomnik,” Moscow, 2003, 2005.

Dusha posle smerti, Kievo-Pechersky Lavra, Kiev, 2006.

THE SOUL AFTER DEATH IN OTHER LANGUAGES

L’Ame apres la mort (The Soul After Death, in French), Orthodox Monastery of the Archangel Michael, Lavardac, France, 1999.

L’Anima dopo la morte (in Italian), Servitum-Interlogos, Sotto il Monte and Schio, Italy, 1999.

Dusha posle smrti (in Serbian), “Svetigora,” Cetinije, Yugoslavia, 1995.

Dusha posle smrti (in Serbian), “Srpski Sion,” Sremski Karlovci, Yugoslavia,

1995.

Dushata sledsmertta (in Bulgarian), Pravoslaven kosher, Trnovo, Bulgaria, n.d.

Marana Shesham? (in Malayalam [south Indian]), Mar Baselius Foundation, Prakkanam, India, 2000.

E Psukhe meta ton thanato (in Greek), Myriobiblios, Athens, 2003.

Die Seele nach dem Tod (in German), Russisches Orthodoxes Kloster des Hl. Hiob von Pocaev (Russian Orthodox Monastery of St. Job of Pochaev), Munich, Germany, 2000.

Sufletul dupa moarte (in Romanian), Protos. Teodosie Paraschiv, Bucharest, Romania, 1994.

Sufletul dupa moarte (in Romanian), Editura Anastasia, Bucharest, Romania,

1996, 2002.

Sufletul dupa moarte (in Romanian), Editura Tehnopress, Iaşi, Romania, 2003.