Eastern Christian Books

In teaching a course to my students this summer about ISIS and the Crusades, we had occasion to illustrate my point about the uses and abuse...

A year ago last week this volume finally appeared in print, but it is only this week that I have been able to work it into one of my courses...

When it first appeared in 2008, I read with great interest Susan Wessel's fascinating and important study, Leo the Great and the Spiritu...

The would-be psychoanalyst in me is always curious as to whether there are any patterns or discernible reasons for why the mind circles back...

I gave a lecture last year on the centenary of the Armenian genocide, and took the occasion to note two coterminous but lesser known genocid...

The Orthodox scholar Scott Kenworthy alerted me to the publication of this hefty and impressive collection containing chapters on Orthodoxy ...

Anyone with even a passing familiarity with the Christian East, or patristic and exegetical history, has invariably and frequently encount...

Forthcoming in October is a paperback version of a book previously published in hardback. Edited by Elazar Barkan and Karen Barkey,  Choreog...

I shall let you in on three secrets: 1) In the 1990s, numerous evangelicals entered Orthodoxy, details of which are to be found in several...

As I have noted on here over the years, few figures from Christian antiquity continue to incite as much interest or controversy as Origen of...

With Vespers tonight the fast shall end and the great feast of the Dormition/Assumption of the Mother of God begin, showing all of us who fo...

I was invited to be keynote lecturer at the Ecumenical Society of the Blessed Virgin Mary's annual conference this past weekend at the l...

Interest in all things Byzantine remains constantly high, not least when it concerns Byzantine art, subject of two recently released books, ...

The University of California Press continues to publish impressive and important studies in early Christian history, not least, as I noted e...

As I have often noted over the years, interest in icons is at perhaps an all-time high as Protestants, Roman Catholics, and others have ...

With Vespers tonight, we begin to celebrate what is the loveliest of the summer festivals, the luminous and splendid feast of the Transfigur...

I count it as a joy to know the author of a new study whose timeliness, especially in view of ecclesiological debates and controversies at t...

I taught a course this past summer entitled "ISIS and the Crusades," looking at the uses and abuses of history  by ISIS in its tal...

I have often noted on here collections devoted to the Desert Fathers and Mothers. In October of this year we will have another scholarly col...

For some reason or other, the role of the body, and of particular senses, continue to come in for scholarly study in the last many years, pe...

July must be the month for books about Epiphanius of Cyprus. This month, from the University of California Press, we have Epiphanius of Cypr...

For those of you who read books on a Kindle, it is worth noting that a Kindle edition of a book by Andrew Louth, one of the leading Orthodox...

I've just had a chance to finish Eugene Rogan's splendid study, The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East   (Basic...

I confess that I am not indifferent to the author of this forthcoming biography of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew insofar as John Chry...

Marcus Plested's splendid study, Orthodox Readings of Aquinas,  which I discussed here , and whom I interviewed here , came back to mind...