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Genesis, Creation, and Early Man has been compiled posthumously from a rich array of materials left behind by Fr. Seraphim. The second edition contains much new material to supplement Fr. Seraphim's work, including an updated preface outlining new developments in the creation/evolution debate, such ...

Amidst the creation/evolution debate that is now raging, with evidence being offered for both sides, few have made use of what Fr. Seraphim Rose called "the missing evidence": the teaching of the ancient Orthodox Holy Fathers on the events of creation, the first-created world, the natures of created ...

I noticed the other copy doesn’t have the “Philosophy of the Absurd” section. This one does. I have a few different copies of Nihilism. What would be interesting is if someone could find “The Kingdom of Man and the Kingdom of God” that this was taken from. It’s a unpublished work of Fr. Seraphim ...

In 1984, two years after Fr. Seraphim's repose, Platina published a collection of lay sermons that Eugene Rose had written for the San Francisco Cathedral bulletin back in the 1960's. The book, titled Heavenly Realm

What Fr, Seraphim told to Fr. Alexey Young
from Letters, page 22


August 16/29 ...

One of Fr. Seraphim’s most important achievements was the English translation of St. Gregory of Tours’ never-before-translated Vita Patrum, a Western patericon of utmost importance because it provides direct evidence that the Christian roots of Western culture are unquestionably Orthodox in spirit ...

What does Nihilism mean?” wrote Friedrich Nietszche. “―That the highest values are losing their value . There is no goal.…There is no Truth, no ‘thing in itself.’ There is no answer to the question: why?” In 1962, the young Eugene Rose (the future Fr. Seraphim) undertook to write a monumental ...