Eastern Christian Books

On the 15th of this month, Eastern Christians of course began the so-called Philip's Fast (sometimes known as "Christmas Lent"...

Hans Boersma, whom I interviewed here , has a book coming out in early 2013 that will be of interest to patrologists, especially those inter...

As the Orthodox theologian David Bentley Hart acerbically put it, most Orthodox never bother to read Roman Catholic sources, but that does ...

This recent and interesting article on the desire of the Maronites to revive and retain the use of Aramaic puts me in mind of a fascinating...

The late Christopher Hitchens and those of his ilk liked to sneer at "religion" and claim it was opposed to "science," ...

As we continue to watch with unease the situation in Egypt, and especially the plight of the Coptic Church under their newly elected pope, a...

Until the recent explosion of new publications in Eastern Christianity, Vladimir Lossky's The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church ,...

Released in 2009 by one publisher, and again last year by another, is a book of interest to all Christians with communities and confreres in...

As some parts of the world pay some (but by no means enough) attention to on-going events in Egypt, including the treatment of Coptic Chri...

Recently I drew attention to the publication of a wholly welcome new book on the thought of the most influential liturgical theologian of ou...

We live in a happy time where the venerable traditions of Syriac Christianity are increasingly well studied and well known thanks, not least...

One of the very surprising things I discovered in reading both Congar's diaries of Vatican II and also those of Maxim Hermaniuk was the...

It is a welcome and happy development that scholarly attention continues to be devoted to monotheistic encounters both ancient and modern, a...

Among some Coptic Christians, there is an understandable push for a more "secular" Egypt in this post-Mubarak era. Some Copts view...

"I'm greatly enjoying this DeVille guy's eminently sensible book. I give you my apostolic blessing to buy 600 copies for yo...

Jerusalem remains a city holy to Jews, Muslims, and Christians. A long-time resident of that ancient place has a new book about life in, an...

As I noted a few days ago, the treatment of non-Muslims--most especially Eastern Christians and Jews--under Islam in various places at vari...

Christopher Beeley is evidently a busy fellow, with two major studies of patristic theology released within a month. The second of these is ...

And now, bibliophiles, something different. Two things in fact: First, a droll essay about fights between couples over how to organize th...

Happy day. I've just received a new book on Alexander Schmemann that I've mentioned before, and which is now available on Amazon to ...

As I have had too many occasions to remark , few instances in Christian-Muslim relations are as wildly, deliberately, tendentiously misunde...