Eastern Christian Books

Monday, May 30, 2016

The City with Five Names

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Lviv/Lwow/Lemberg/Leopolis/Lvov is the major city in Western Ukraine of which I have the fondest memories from my time there in the summer o...
Thursday, May 26, 2016

The Mind of Christ and a Psychoanalytic Mind (V)

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I am about half-way through this fascinating and learned book by the British scholar Peter Tyler,  The Pursuit of the Soul: Psychoanalysis, ...
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Orthodox Monasticism

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The invaluable specialized publisher Gorgias Press just sent me their newest catalogue, and among the many riches in there we find a book du...
Monday, May 23, 2016

Uncommon Prayer

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I am very delighted to report that my good friend Michael Plekon's next book is due out in September from the University of Notre Dame P...
Friday, May 20, 2016

Seven Ecumenical Councils

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We are of course fast coming up to the much-promised and much-delayed great and holy council of the Orthodox Churches, set to meet in Crete ...
Thursday, May 19, 2016

The Philosophy of Liturgy

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There are not, as far as I know, many philosophers who look at liturgy through their own discipline. Among recent works that attempt somethi...
Wednesday, May 18, 2016

The Mind of Christ and a Psychoanalytic Mind (III)

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As part of an on-going  series  on Christianity and psychoanalysis, I turn next to a recent collection edited by Earl Bland and Brad Strawn,...
Monday, May 16, 2016

Smiting the Saracens

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As I noted earlier in the month, CUA Press continues to enrich the world of patristics scholarship with their regular offerings in the Fathe...
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Narrative Truth and Historical Truth: a Brief Note on Donald Spence

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I have been offering some ad hoc comments  on here as I make my way through a number of new and other books that are helping me to think thr...
Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Essential Orthodox Texts

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As I noted only last week in my interview with Amir Azarvan, we live in a time when, happily, introductions to Eastern Christianity are appe...
Monday, May 9, 2016

Can a Blind Man Read Genesis?

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Catholic University of America Press continues to enrich us all with the on-going publications appearing in their Fathers of the Church seri...
Friday, May 6, 2016

Amir Azarvan on Re-Introducing Eastern Christianity

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As I have noted on here several times, we live in a happy moment when introductions to Eastern Christianity abound in English, from the simp...
Thursday, May 5, 2016

Foreign Faiths in Tsarist Russia

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I drew attention to the hardcover edition when it appeared two years ago, so it is time to note the appearance of a very affordable paperbac...
Wednesday, May 4, 2016

For Freedom Christ Has Set Us Free

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Focused on a crucial set of questions, and with a slew of top-drawer scholars--Robert Louis Wilken, RĂ©mi Brague, John Rist, inter alia--and ...

Church-State Relations in Finland and Russia

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With chapters on two countries with large Orthodox Churches--Russia and Finland--as well as numerous other interesting chapter, this forthco...
Monday, May 2, 2016

Freud for Historians, Theologians, and the Rest of Us

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In the early 1990s, when I was a psychology student, I read a very great deal of Freud, Jung, Coltart, D.W. Winnicott, and other psychoanaly...
Thursday, April 28, 2016

Nicholas Denysenko on Liturgical Reform

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It has been my happy--and frequent!--duty on here to note the many recent publications of my friend, Nicholas Denysenko , a deacon in the Or...
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Last Supper for Middle Eastern Christians?

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For well over a decade, some of us have watched the mass exodus of Eastern Christians--Copts in Egypt, Assyrians in Iraq, Catholics and Ort...
Monday, April 25, 2016

Biographies and Biographers

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When I'm not reading military or martial history at bedtime, I am as often as not reading a biography. Lately those have included a few ...
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I am associate professor of psychology at the University of Saint Francis in Ft. Wayne, IN. I have published several books and scores of articles. With an extensive background in psychoanalysis, I am now also in private practice part-time as a psychotherapist.
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