Eastern Christian Books

The University of Edinburgh Press sent me a copy of a hefty and impressive new collection slated for publication this summer: Christianity i...

In my courses on Eastern Christian encounters with Islam, we look at Russia, both because it is fascinating in itself (not least as the larg...

Patrick Deneen's new book has been attracting a lot of attention as have other authors in the past few years who cheer the rise of an a...

Amidst the myriad of flaws and lacunae (enumerated here ) in Rod Dreher's little book, none is more fatal than its romanticization of lo...

The newly released exhortation from Pope Francis, Gaudete et exsultate , almost from its opening lines put me immediately in mind of the the...

I have previously discussed on here several of David Fagerberg's splendid books , and I have often used them in classes, especially Theo...

One of the several challenges I have each semester in introducing students to the historic and current encounters between Muslims and Easter...

In three parts last fall, I discussed at length a fascinating book, T.A. Howard's magnificent study: The Pope and the Professor: Pius ...

I well remember the commotion caused in Chicago in 2012 at the annual AAR/SBL meeting there, when John Dominic Crossan, president that year...

On this Great and Holy Friday, as we behold the One who hung the heavens hanging on the cross in a sacrifice that ends all sacrifice, we hav...

What a curious stroke of timing that two books showed up in my mailbox yesterday. I'm half tempted to read them together and write about...

It was a good four years ago now, perhaps longer, that I was first asked by a Catholic publisher for my thoughts on the debate over marriage...

David Fagerberg, of whose books (discussed here ) I am very fond, having often assigned them to students over the years, e-mailed me recentl...

This fascinating article , about varying memories, many nostalgic and romanticized, of Joseph Stalin in his native Georgia, confirms what I ...

I am both glad and relieved to see that Northern Illinois University Press continues to publish in the areas of Russian Orthodox history and...

I have often commented on here over the past few years about the many books of the English literary scholar and psycho-analyst Adam Phillips...

Every group, nation, state, culture, or even church or religious group tends to write the history of its founding and of its past with a cer...

One of the things that recent research into iconoclasm, broadly understood, has been revealing is the fact that images have power, and are f...

Released late last year is a new collection, Creation "ex nihilo": Origins, Development, Contemporary Challenges, edited by Gary A...

The German Catholic bishops recently gave that reliably tiresome hysteric Rod Dreher another chance to collapse on his fainting couch in res...

The University of Notre Dame Press sent me their newest catalogue; but it was in reviewing the back lists that brought to my attention a boo...