Fr. John Chryssavgis is well known as a deeply knowledgeable and sensitive interpreter of Orthodox ascetic and mystical writings. Here he turns his insight and pastoral experience to the subject of passionate love (eros) as it reflects, in marriage as in celibacy, the all-consuming love of God for human persons. Profoundly ecclesial in its perspective, thoroughly grounded in authentic Orthodox Tradition concerning the mystery of the divine and human love, this splendid volume will nurture any Christian, married or celibate, who seeks to understand the intimate relationship between chastity and passion, eros and ecstasy.
Fr. John Breck
St. Sergius Theological Institute, Paris

Fr. John Chryssavgis has an unusual quality for a theologian. He has both a deep appreciation of the human condition and an understanding of the social context of the present time in which the theologian is destined to refl etc. At the same time, he knows the patristic scholar and can listen to those texts with the sensitivity of someone who has understood hermeneutics...
Ron Perry
Institute of Counseling, Sydney