Eastern Christian Books

Disarmingly published last week as a mere "note," this text from Rome portends major shifts in the ecclesiology of the Latin Chur...

I'm greatly looking forward to reading this new book upon its release next month. When I started reading French existentialists in high-...

Knowing almost nothing about the latest Palestinian-Israeli conflict, I will say nothing beyond noting, as I have in the past on here, that ...

As the late, great historian of Byzantine Christianity, Robert Taft of the Society of Jesus used to say, when it comes to the development of...

Phillip Jenkins is a scholar to whom one should always pay attention. His range is wide. To cite just one example, his book on the Great War...

If asked to rank the most vexatious nonsense one hears regularly talked about married clergy, I would have no hesitation in putting in top p...

Every few years we are subjected to a slate of books about the state of higher education, including Christian higher education, in this coun...

Much romanticized nonsense is talked by both Christians and Muslims about our individual and shared pasts. Too much history traffics in narr...

Continuing my series of reflections on, and drawn from, my newest book Married Priests in the Catholic Church,   let me note with special g...

My inner ecumenist's super-ego occasionally does battle with my triumphalist id when it comes to evangelical and charismatic Christians,...

Since at least Susan Ashbrook Harvey's 2006 book Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olafactory Imagination , books about n...

Interest in the works of Sergius Bulgakov remains justly high, and consistently so for at least the last twenty years. Numerous publishers h...

The fall catalogue from the University of Notre Dame Press is just out. They are, of course, the largest and finest Catholic academic publis...

On my sabbatical in 2018, I put the finishing touches to my newest book, Married Priests in the Catholic Church .  But before doing that, I ...

I have made no secret of my view that much of the problem of Christian (and other cultural and theological) division, especially between Ort...

My book that was just published this month, Married Priests in the Catholic Church, began life a decade ago as a collection focused solely o...

I had a wonderful dinner with the author of this forthcoming book when I invited him to campus to give a lecture in 2019. He told me he was ...

I have fond memories of my (so far) only trip to Cyprus in October of 1993, and would dearly love to go back some day. I thought of that tri...

If you go here , you will be able to read a brief interview I did about my just-released book Married Priests in the Catholic Church. In the...

This month we have a more affordable paperback edition of a book first published in 2019 by Edinburgh University Press as part of their seri...

The ways in which we narrate the past almost always say as much about us in the present--and sometimes the future we wish to have--as they p...

I was pleased and honoured to have been asked, nearly a decade ago now, to contribute to this forthcoming collection, part of a series of su...

Justin Coyle , a young and formidably wise scholar whom one should keep an eye on in the years ahead and of whom one continues to expect gre...

Coming out in May of this year is a book that focuses on those fascinating proto-ecumenical encounters of Eastern Christians with their West...

I have previously drawn attention to the fascinating books of the historian Phillip Wood who treats early Muslim-Christian encounters in Ir...