Eastern Christian Books

A new book by the Dominican scholar Aidan Nichols is always worth paying attention to. He is easily in the top tier of serious and worthwhil...

Though I was privileged to read it in draft form, I was still excited last night to find in my mailbox a copy of Bill Mills' new book, L...

It has, for two decades now, often been remarked upon that the Russian Orthodox Church has gone hand-in-hand with the military adventures of...

Like most things, the study of Eastern Orthodox aesthetics, anthropology, and material culture lags behind similar treatments given to Weste...

I have over the years noted a number of books and videos, as well as TV shows, about Mt. Athos, a place that continues to enchant or at leas...

The philosopher Jonathan Lear of the University of Chicago is also a practicing psychoanalyst. He has written a number of books in and about...

As I have often noted, Newman is alone among 19th-century Catholic figures to be translated into Greek for study by his Orthodox contemporar...

In thinking back on my experience last month in Iasi at the inaugural conference of the International Orthodox Theological Association, the ...

It is always a pleasure to be able to interview Ines Murzaku, as I have a few times now, most recently here . Today we are joined by her co-...

During very long flights to Romania earlier this month, with long times in between and thus a lot of sitting around, I very happily whiled a...

Cyprus seems to be coming in for some recent scrutiny, as a recent book, noted only last month, bears on parts of its history. Now another ...

One of the especially fascinating groups of Eastern Christians, who seem to fall between so many larger imperial and nationalist projects an...

I reviewed here a recent book on the theology of martyrdom and some of its ecclesiological and ecumenical questions. Now another book, set f...

More and more I think much of Christian conflict and division turns on readings of history, which is why psychoanalysts such as Vamik Volkan...

I was in Iasi, Romania last week for the inaugural conference of the International Orthodox Theological Association. I was both an official ...

I count it one of the great gifts of Providence that Andriy Chirovsky, a mitred Ukrainian Catholic priest and scholar who founded the Shept...

The Crusades remain a topic of perpetual interest, and almost equally perpetual misrepresentation in the hands of many. One area that has be...

Christians from the very beginning, being celebrants of an incarnate God, treasured (sometimes controversially) material embodiments of God&...

My interest in the relationship between Freudian and later analytic psychologies is, I think, rather amply demonstrated on here and elsewher...

The expansion of Syriac and other Christian traditions into China and far east Asia has long fascinated me; so, too, has its gradual disappe...

More than five years ago now, I lavished rather a lot of attention on an important and fascinating collection, Orthodox Constructions of the...

I n any proper accounting of the relationship between Christianity and psychoanalysis, to which I have contributed piecemeal on here (and el...

If you've been at this ecclesiology and ecumenism business as long as I have (thirty years this spring, since I was a high-school studen...

For those following the on-going struggle in Ukraine for an Orthodox church free from neo-imperial control and aggression, and for those int...

In honour of her recent passing unto eternal life, I reprint and update slightly the following post from November 2010. Books about icons ...