Eastern Christian Books

As the flashpoint of the encounter between the Russian Orthodox and Catholic worlds, Ukraine--so the popular impression often runs--very oft...

As I have noted many times, including in a recent discussion about new books on Muslims and Christians in Syria, the history of those initi...

As I've done on here for previous years, so let me now offer a look back at some of the significant books of 2016 in case you are lookin...

More than four years ago, on a now-defunct blog, I was asked for some recommendations on books about papal infallibility, a topic so often ...

Though today scarcely even a shell of its former self, the city of Antioch in Christian antiquity was once a great and prominent centre, an ...

I suppose, as is fashionable today, I ought to offer "full disclosure" over this book, though it does not seem exactly relevant. N...

I just received in the mail a new and fascinating collection edited by Megan Cassidy-Welch, Remembering the Crusades and Crusading (Routled...

The more contemporary history of Byzantium moves on from the puerile sneering and sloganeering of Gibbon and later defamers, the more we re...

This summer, I discussed a recent and quite splendid study of the sunset of the Ottoman Empire in the context of and as a result of the Fir...

Though the vast majority of chapters in this recent collection treat Western themes, there are at least two chapters in  The Oxford Handbook...

In 2014, we had a collection edited by the Orthodox theologian Paul Gavrilyuk  and the Anglican scholar Sarah Coakley,  The Spiritual Senses...