A new book entitled "Truth and Communion" has been published in Simplified Chinese by the Orthodox Brotherhood of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Hong Kong (Moscow Patriarchate) with the blessing of Metropolitan KYRILL of Smolensk and Kaliningrad. This 112 page book contains two essays "Truth and Communion" and "Personhood and Being" by Dr John D. Zizioulas, now Metropolitan of Pergamon. These along with his other essays were first published in English under the title "Being as Communion" by SVS Press in 1985.

This text is also available online at http://www.orthodox.cn/catechesis/beingascommunion. It is based on a Traditional Chinese translation by Ren Yanlin done in 2003-04 for the Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hong Kong and South East Asia.

You may request a softcover copy with a freewill donation of any amount to help underwrite the publication of this book.

Direct all inquiries to church@orthodoxy.hk or contact Fr Dionisy Pozdnyaev at

In North America, this book may be ordered online along with other Chinese books through the OFASC Store.