Eastern Christian Books

Interest in the Desert Fathers and Mothers remains high, as I have noted before, with many recent books testifying to this. Along comes anot...

As we noted in the course of our interview , Orthodox theologians have not contributed as much or as frequently to contemporary debates and ...

One of Stanley Hauerwas's great questions, which I like sometimes to use with students, is: "Who taught you that you're suppose...

Jews, Christians, and Muslims are both similar and different in their understanding of sin and reconciliation. A new book explores those sim...

The Crusades , arguably the most abused period in history, continue to come in for welcome scholarly study, including in this recent book: ...

Anybody who knows anything about the study of all things Byzantine today knows that Dumbarton Oaks, a research institute of Harvard Universi...

Paul Bradshaw and Maxwell Johnson, of the University of Notre Dame's acclaimed program in liturgical studies, have just published anothe...

Studies on Dionysius the Areopagite, as I have noted before , continue to emerge regularly today. He remains an enormously influential figur...

Tensions in the Orthodox world, and the pretensions of the Russian Church, can both be understood in part as the result of the longstanding ...

Francesca Aran Murphy, to whose work I have drawn attention previously, has written a long and fascinating essay on the writing of history,...

As I have noted before , I am an inveterate and unapologetic reader of diaries--the more indiscreet, the more "incorrect" in this ...

I'm currently doing research on the relationship between the French Revolution, nineteenth-century nationalism in Eastern Europe and the...

The Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia has announced a forthcoming series of books in anticipation of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian...

As I have noted before, in discussing the important work of William Cavanaugh,  the whole question, in the modern period, of what constitute...

As we continue to learn more about the encounter--ancient, medieval, and modern--between Christianity (both Eastern and Western) and Islam, ...

Oxford University Press continues to impress with the books it publishes in its series on Early Christian Studies. One of its latest offerin...

Studies on all things Byzantine continue to pour forth today in greater numbers than ever before. Along comes one such study by Panos Sophou...

The World Council of Churches has just announced the publication of a new series of books, "Doxa and Praxis: Exploring Orthodox Theolog...

Happily today we are seeing an expanding interest in Christianity in Syria in the first millennium. A recent publication continues this deve...

Peter the Great continues to provoke attention from historians and scholars, including theologians who have recently been re-evaluating his ...