ANTHONY SOUROZH, metropolitan..
ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN, archpriest.
ALEXEI OSIPOV, professor.
KALLISTOS WARE, bishop.
VLADIMIR LOSSKY, professor.
JOHN ZIZIULAS, metropolitan.
CHRISTOS YANNARAS, professor.
SOPHRONY SAKHAROV, archimandrite, spiritual father of Metr. John Zizioulas. ANDREI KURAEV, protodeacon.
SAINTS ANTHONY THE GREAT, EPHREM THE SYRIAN, AVVA DOROTHEOS, MACARIUS THE GREAT, ST. JOHN CLIMACUS, ISAAC THE SYRIAN, SYMEON THE NEW THEOLOGIAN AND OTHER FATHERS, AUTHORS OF THE PHILOKALIA…
Before them, it is desirable to communicate with:
SAINT IGNATIUS BRIANCHANINOV AND THEOPHAN THE RECLUSE, JOHN OF KRONSTADT, ELDERS OF THE OPTINA PUSTYN.
After getting acquainted with the holy fathers and mothers, we can get acquainted with the apostles Paul, Peter, John, Mark… with the authors of the New Testament books of the Bible. To make it easier for you to find a common language with them, you can first communicate with experts on the books of the New and Old Testament:
JANUARIUS IVLIEV, archimandrite.
GEORGIY CHISTYAKOV, presbyter.
YEVGENIY AVDY
ENKO, professor.
BIBLE. All available translations.
(More about getting to know these Spirit-bearers, and why it is necessary to talk to them specifically in this (logical and chronological) order – see in Part I in the section
‘Recommended Literature’).”