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We are turning our attention now to the fall issue, having just put to bed the spring issue (vol. 52, nos. 1-2) of Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies, which--alone of all comparable journals in North America--manages to be published regularly and consistently every year on a twice-yearly schedule that incorporates the best scholarship and pastoral reflection from Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Eastern Catholic, Roman Catholic, Protestant, and other scholars from around the world. There is still time to subscribe in order to feast on the riches in this issue. There is, moreover, ample time to encourage your local library (especially academic library) to consider subscribing. And there is still time to take out a gift subscription for your friends, pastor, and others.

The spring issue will contain, inter alia, articles and essays by:

• Richard Rymarz on Ukrainian Catholics at World Youth Day
• Andriy Chirovsky on the Ecclesial Maturation of the Church of Kyiv
• Michael Plekon on Eastern Elements in Kierkegaard's Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses
• Nicholas Denysenko on Baptismal Themes in the Byzantine Rite of Water Blessing on Theophany
• Daniel Galadza on Paul's Notion of λογικὴν λατρείαν
• Vincenzo Poggi on the Vita of Cyril Korolevsky/J.-F. Charon and the East
  

In addition, of course, we have nearly thirty reviews of many new books, including:

•  B. ter Haar Romeny, ed., Religious Origins of Nations? (reviewed by Oxford's Sebastian Brock)

• A.E. Siecinski, The Filioque: History of a Doctrinal Controversy (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology) (reviewed by Robert Haddad)

• Barbara Skinner, Western Front of the Eastern Church: Uniate and Orthodox Conflict in Eighteenth-Century Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia (reviewed by John-Paul Himka) 

• Gillian Crow, Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh: Essential Writings (Modern Spiritual Masters)(reviewed by Roman Rytsar)

•  Jonathan Riley-Smith, The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam (reviewed by John Bequette)

•  Thomas Mathews, Byzantium: From Antiquity to the Renaissance (reviewed by Emma Loosley)

•  Douglas M. Koskela, Ecclesiality and Ecumenism: Yves Congar and the Road to Unity (reviewed by Catherine Clifford)

• Anna Lisa Crone, Eros and Creativity in Russian Religious Renewal (Russian History and Culture) (reviewed by Judith Deutsch Kornblatt)

•  Judith Deutsch Kornblatt, Divine Sophia: The Wisdom Writings of Vladimir Solovyov (reviewed by Robert Slesinski)

• John Chryssavgis, Remembering and Reclaiming Diakonia: The Diaconate Yesterday and Today (reviewed by David Kennedy)

•  Larry Wolff, The Idea of Galicia: History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture (reviewed by Christopher Hann)

• Paul Collins, Partaking in Divine Nature: Deification and Communion (reviewed by Daniel Keating)

• Wallace Alston and Cynthia Jarvis, The Power to Comprehend with All the Saints: The Formation and Practice of a Pastor-Theologian (reviewed by Bill Mills)

• Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Song and Memory: Biblical Women in Syriac Tradition (reviewed by Bill Mills)

• Matthew Blastares, Sexuality, Marriage, and Celibacy in Byzantine Law: The Alphabetical Collection of Matthew Blastares: Selections from a Fourteenth-Century Encyclopedia of Canon Law, trans. Patrick Viscuso (reviewed by Alex Laschuk)

•  Christopher Pramuk, Sophia: The Hidden Christ of Thomas Merton (reviewed by Michael Plekon)

• Another dozen or so brief reviews are included, most of books already discussed on here.

Really, given this cornucopia, do you have any excuse for not subscribing--today?