Eastern Christian Books

Among some Christians of both East and West, there is a tendency to romanticize both monasticism and the Middle Ages. Such romanticism will ...

In the late 1990s, when I was living with other grad students in the magnificent Somerset House in Ottawa, one of my house-mates was in medi...

I'm pleased to see a very affordable edition of a book I discussed in three parts  is now available from Oxford University Press: The Po...

Well do I recall reading biographies of David Lloyd George, as well as histories of the Great War and its aftermath, and hearing again how m...

If you randomly started reading Adam Phillips and knew nothing of his background, I have to think it would soon become apparent that he is a...

I confess to not having heard of the author of this new book, but any time the words "Orthodoxy and Ecumenism" are used together, ...

Books about Irenaeus have continued steadily to emerge over the last two decades, and I have tried to keep abreast of them on here . In Febr...

In my courses on Eastern Christian-Muslim relations, perhaps the most fascinating case-study we examine is that of Russia, which presents a ...

In July 2017 I attended a fascinating conference at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, where I gave a paper on the ecumenical uses o...

If, like me, you have long wondered (i) how and why North American and British governments all maintain that the Saudis are our "closes...

Given the sheer volume of books emerging today, it is hard to maintain excitement for a lot of them, but there are some coming along to whic...

For some people, there is apparently a conflict between what they conceive of as 'faith' on the one hand and 'science' on th...

I had occasion, while working on something else, recently to pick up a short book published in 1976, Challenge to the Church: The Case of Ar...

Elsewhere you can read my thoughts on the new set of canonical norms recently proffered by the bishop of Rome as some kind of system to hel...

I am of course deeply interested in the problems of historical memory, especially among the Christians of Eastern Europe, and have often dis...

Some of the best books in Eastern Christian history are written by A.E. Siecienski, whom I've been delighted to interview on here in th...

One of the real surprises in MacIntyre's 2016 book Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity , which I discussed at length here , is his seri...

I began last month a new series on here: annotations from my reading of the London Review of Books, which comes every two weeks and is savo...

It is always a joy and delight to be able to talk to my friend Nicholas Denysenko, as I have on here several times over the years about his...