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# Christianity: Lineaments of a Sacred Tradition

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A must read, his last work.
  

*by D***S on Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2013*

As to the first 30 page intro by Kallistos Ware?  Don't skip it.  Don't ever skip Ware's intros. I read this one a half dozen times.  Bp. Ware is viewed by many, of course, as the intellectual pope of the Eastern Church.  He speaks in the intro of this last work by Sherrard with great endearment, referring to the author as "Philip"; by his first name.Worth the time and read and price of the book by far is my favorite slice:"Christian contemplation, in common with that of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam, is centered not upon some vague inner apprehension of the mystery of man's own spiritual essence.  It is centered upon God's self-emptying....We have to lose our soul in order to find it, or in order to be in a position to encounter directly the light and power of God."  Again, with the Christian East, it is not what you know or have.  It is what we apophatically--radical apophaticism--don't know and have tallied up and lost that leads us back.  Leads us on the enlightenment divination road in our divine ascent.  To salvation.  Love this.I also loved how Sherrard's devotion to poetry made him an ace in the mystical way that comprises "the true faith" without being uppity about it.  Sherrard says there are perhaps as many ways to God as people.  Love this.  Sure beats the annoying One Way finger in the air of the 1970s Jesus Movement that was 99% Protestant Evangelical fluff and most soon gone.  I say this often and I think I got it from Sherrard: "Many are annoyed that we Orthodox say and have said for 1,500 years in the Divine Liturgy that "we have found the true faith".  You must remember that we are careful never to claim that we have ever done anything with it."I found the 33 page selection of Christianity and the Metaphysics of Logic a complete head scratcher as to it's value and inclusion in this volume, especially next to the other great stuff in this work by Sherrard.  This chapter was a big snore, causing me to downgrade a 5 to a 4 star.  But, I did so hate and not excell in logic back at the University so maybe this was just me. The next chapter on the Latin West's foolish devotion to Scholasticism and all things Aristotle (the "heathen" and almost atheist) was by great contrast quite valuable.Our Bay Area Orthodox Book Club found this title a wise selection but not an easy read.  The work here has been published after Sherrard's death due to the love and devotion of his widow and his friend, Bp. Ware.  Together Ware and Sherrard worked on the fourth volume translation for the Philokalia, walking, talking of God on the dirt roads of the Holy Mountain.  Indeed, Sherrard brought so many titles to the English speaking world, including the lives and works of several modern Greek poets.  Huzzah the poets.His eleven chapters may include some thoughts that seem dated; like the chapter on Nietzsche and another on Jung.  But you just have to love the way Sherrard embraces the modern world with all the questions inquirers have.  His place as a non cleric, as a married man, as a family man--help him see the Orthodox path in ways that helped me at a layman's level.  And as to loving the earth?  Sherrard was green before it was cool to be green.Loved his thoughts on Christianity up against other spiritual paths.  As much as he loves the Creed, he explains how even this dear statement bought with the blood of those who paid so dearly for so long, can turn us into idolatrous religious dolts who look to statements of belief and proof text Bible verses rather than a vital relationship with God and others.  If you are a convert from Protestantism you understand the allure of the Biblical inerrancy thing, a context that makes us "people of the book".  But in a bad way.  As some would say corners of Islam have done with their Koran.  It is sad when God is replaced by instruction and observation about God. Sherrard argues for the mystical union of faith, for the union of persons, in contrast.A major theme that keeps coming back in Sherrard's work is how the physical world is a sacramental world.  He returns to the bad mistake of dualism in Augustine during the early 5th century and Aquinas and the Scholastics in the 12th.  And the Christian West even today.  All a serious misstep that continues to rob us in the West.I loved Ware's intro summary of that other twenty years out of print book by Sherrard on sex, love and God: Eros and Christianity.  I found it in obscurity and paid dearly for that book a decade back as a collector's paperback.  Sherrard's writings here similarly languished unpublished in file folders and the like.Sherrard did not live long enough to finish Christianity: Lineaments of a Sacred Tradition before he died.  But now, those who love this man, did the work to bring it to us and we are indebted to Ware and to his widow; his publisher, and beloved--Denise Harvey--and to others who made this book happen.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Philip Sherrard's books
  

*by E***S on Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2011*

We have studied Sherrard's "Lineaments..." at church, IT IS A GREAT BOOK! The thorough review by Zonaras says it all, I do not think I can add anything, really!This book made me buy a small book by Philip Sherrard's called "Christianity and Eros", its subtitle is "Essays on the Theme of Sexual Love". IT IS ANOTHER GREAT BOOK! I am not aware of other Orthodox writers covering this topic in Orthodox Christianity, despite the fact that Holy Matrimony is one of the SACRAMENTS of the Orthodox Church and it is a PATH LEADING TO SALVATION which is equally valid in Orthodox Christianity just like monasticism is.Enjoy his works!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Four Stars
  

*by B***M on Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2015*

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