Eastern Christian Books

Before the month of May--the month of the birth of both Freud (whose usefulness to Christianity I've argued elsewhere), and Marx--passes...

I don't know about you, but my library is rather thin on works devoted to Georgian and related musical traditions. Those interested in s...

As I have often noted on here over the years, the legal status of minority Christians under Islam is both governed by certain well-known cod...

For two years and more now, here and elsewhere, I have been examining questions of historical memory and reconciliation in a variety of cont...

Often my students, including many self-identified Christian ones, have to admit, at least grudgingly, that they do not really understand Tri...

As I have often noted on here, there are several figures around whom explosions of new publications have been found in the last two decades,...

I have of course had a long-standing interest in the question of papal power, having written a book about it in light of Orthodox ecclesiol...

As I have had many occasions to note over the last 15 years, deification/divinization/theosis has become hugely popular with many Western au...

To do anything in patristics today is to come across the name of the Jesuit scholar Brian Daley, whom I have met at least twice, always find...

Almost five years ago now, I noted that we were gearing up for the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War, which was already in 2013 oc...

In 2008, Roy Robson published Old Believers in Modern Russia. This was followed, in 2011, by R.O. Crummey's Old Believers in a Changin...

I once had a professor, whose lovely temperament I knew to be immune to be temptations to sadism, nonetheless try to get me to read Lonergan...

It has been said for a while now that the major theological questions of our time will be anthropological in nature. Much of the career and ...

Christopher Bollas is a prolific writer and one of the most important psychoanalytic theorists alive today. I have previously mentioned a nu...

John Flannery of Heythrop College in the University of London e-mailed me to let me know of Robert Murray's death. A brief obituary from...

If you listened, in the aftermath of the Florida school massacre, to that moral cretin heading up the NRA, he fatuously claimed that there w...

It's been almost 40 years since St. Vladimir's Seminary Press published a translation of St. Theodore the Studite's On the Holy ...

Having written for several of them now, I always pay attention when Oxford University Press tells me of a forthcoming new volume in its vari...

This August will see the advent of a book by a scholar whose previous work on iconography, Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity: Orthodox Theo...

The recent news that the venerable Norris-Hulse professorship of divinity in the University of Cambridge is passing from Sarah Coakley to C...