The Authors: Hieromonk Patapios is Academic Director of the Center for Traditionalist Orthodox Studies in Etna, California, USA. He received a B.A. from Cambridge, graduate degrees from the Pennsylvania State University (philosophy) and the University of Pittsburgh (classics and library science), and a doctorate in theology (patristics) from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley.Archbishop Chrysostomos is a Senior Scholar at the Center for Traditionalist Orthodox Studies. He completed his graduate studies in history at the University of California, with M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in psychology from Princeton University. A Fulbright Scholar in Romania, he has taught at the University of California and other American and European universities. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Divinity School, a Marsden Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Oxford, and, more recently, a Visiting Scholar at the University of Washington and the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley.

• Contents: Orthodox Christian Spirituality – I. Commentary: The Decline in Frequent Communion – The Kollyvades Movement and the Advocacy of Frequent Communion – The Treatise Concerning Frequent Communion – The Theological Impact of the Treatise – II. Translation of Concerning Frequent Communion.

«...a book that treats of an issue that has by no means gone away. It is an important text that will repay close reading. Hieromonk Patapios and Archbishop Chrysostomos have done a great service in presenting it in such a careful and balanced fashion.» (Marcus Plested, Friends of Mount Athos, Annual Report)