Eastern Christian Books

As you've no doubt heard by now, today is the centenary of the assassination of the Austrian archduke and his consort in Sarajevo, the e...

The Russian Orthodox Church, by virtue of being the largest Orthodox church in the world (as they ceaselessly remind everyone, especially in...

Nobody who has any interest in or understanding of Christianity in the East can avoid for very long the sorry task of contending with ethno-...

As I have often noted on here, interest in all things "Byzantine" (whatever the problems with that term) remains high, and new bo...

Whenever I heard self-appointed Orthodox apologists bashing people over the head with references to "the Fathers" or "the Hol...

After the 2003 statement of the North American Orthodox-Catholic dialogue (preceded by the 1995 statement from Rome, both available here ), ...

Brill just sent me a fascinating collection of essays about a small Orthodox country whose patriarch-catholicos has long impressed me, viz.,...

I have been fascinated by the figure of Evagrius of Pontus for more than a decade now since I first encountered him in a doctoral class that...

This coming Sunday is, for most Western Christians, celebrated as Trinity Sunday, often the bane of preachers who must try to make sense of ...

Overshadowed as it is by its hulking and often hegemonic neighbor to the East, and more recently by the conflict in Ukraine, the country of ...

Of the writing of books about the Crusades there is no end, it seems, and justly so at least right now when they remain so massively, and of...

Forever looming large, it seems, in the minds of some Eastern Christians is the loss of the empire, and in particular the loss of Constantin...

Last summer, I noted even then the forthcoming flood of books on the centenary of the Great War, which we will observe this August. I have s...