Eastern Christian Books

Ask the average person (sadder still: the average Catholic) to name one of the corporal works of mercy , and you'll very likely get a bl...

The University of Toronto Press recently sent me their catalogue, and there are a number of new books (or newly reprinted in paperback) in t...

Live long enough in the academy and you'll see the most improbable pairings and the most unlikely couplings. But even by that semi-cynic...

My esteem for Winston Churchill has bee noted already. Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of his death, precisely 70 years to the day (as ...

Though I think, after Augustine Casiday's recent work, that any suspicion of Evagrius should be set aside, I would argue that even thos...

Discussions of the First World War have, as I've noted before, focused on Christian suffering, especially in Armenia in 1915. Far less a...

With rumors flying that the next papal utterance to which we are to be treated in encyclical form will cover the controverted and tiresome t...

Living as so many countries in the region do in the shadow of the Russian behemoth, smaller countries in Eastern Europe as well as the Cauca...

The Greek Church today, like most Christian bodies, seems to be riven between a reactionary and retrograde crowd (led by bishops who wrote t...

North American Christians have been obsessing over "family values" for a long time, and often making rather a hash of them, not re...

As I've mentioned before in looking at comparable handbooks, we are, happily, living in a time when such scholarly collections can no lo...

The international dialogue between Orthodoxy and Catholicism has for some time been looking at the papacy in the first millennium in part to...

We continue to learn, and in some cases un-learn, about the encounter between Byzantine Christians and Muslims, especially during the Umayya...

When he was younger, one of my sons was fascinated with the life of St. Symeon Stylite, the ascetic who apparently lived atop a pillar for p...

I have made no secret of my dislike of the funeral industry in North America, nor of many Christian funerals today, nor of our culture's...

We are fast closing in on the second anniversary of the election of Pope Francis, who continues to confound both fans and enemies and, doub...

We have, as I have often noted, been commemorating, in 2014, the centenary of the Great War. Next year, as I shall presently note, we shall ...

This forthcoming book was set for release this week, and I was looking forward to it as a Christmas present. But now it's been postponed...

In September I posted on here word of my forthcoming book, which I will (D.v.) submit to the publisher (the University of Notre Dame Press) ...