Eastern Christian Books

You sometimes hear it put about, especially by those wishing to accuse Christians of being inconsistent on the question of the legitimacy of...

I've previously drawn attention to Mother/Saint Maria of Paris (Maria Skobtsova) here  on the 70th anniversary of her martyrdom, where I...

In three parts this month, I discussed The Memoirs of Louis Bouyer: From Youth and Conversion to Vatican II, the Liturgical Reform, and Af...

Having spent the summer of 2001 in Ukraine, and having ever after longed to go back, I have deep memories and affection for the country even...

I drew attention to this book when it appeared in hardback a few years ago, but next month Princeton University Press is bringing out a pape...

In the previous two installments treating  The Memoirs of Louis Bouyer: From Youth and Conversion to Vatican II, the Liturgical Reform, a...

Thomas Kiser of Vivarium Books in Saint Paul, MN has contacted me to say "I am a used bookseller specializing in theology and pre-moder...

When we were last gathered together, I mentioned some of the works of Louis Bouyer I had read over the years and gave a bit of context for ...

If it isn't obvious, then let me make it so: I regard the liturgical reforms of Vatican II as little short of disastrous, and not only...

At long last we have, in the last decade, been seeing more scholarly works on Eastern Christian music. Set for release the first of next yea...

Say what you will about the modern papacy--and I have --you cannot lay at its feet the complaint of it not making its views widely known. T...

As I have noted several times on here in the past, I am an inveterate and unapologetic reader of diaries , the blunter the better. In this a...

2015 is shaping up to be a record year for the number of books published on Eastern Christian-Muslim relations. I've noted a few on here...

Every semester I tell my students that they must remember that the Church, like Christ, has two natures: divine and human. It is sometimes...

I have for some time been ever more fascinated with the uses and abuses of the past, with questions of memory and forgetting, particularly i...

I was asked last week to give a lecture on Byzantine funerals, drawing on some of the work I did earlier this year, noted here and here . ...

Coming out in October is a new book that focuses on three of the most important figures in Christian letters who are still feted yearly in b...

When I was last at a conference with John-Paul Himka two years ago, he told me this book was in the works. It builds on his earlier work, La...

I recently completed a chapter for an exciting collection being put together under the editorship of the Orthodox scholar and Archdeacon of...

With Iran a political obsession for the United States since at least 1979 (and of course back into the 1950s), an obsession renewed lately w...