Eastern Christian Books

The Coptic tradition, and the venerable city of Alexandria, are both well represented in this forthcoming book from Oxford early next year: ...

Lois Farag, whose scholarship on Coptic Christianity I have previously noted on here, has turned her hand to the most prominent of the prela...

One of the diverting pleasures of my life is getting new catalogues in the mail from publishers; I'm sufficiently old-fashioned enough t...

Given his prominence and the controversy surrounding him, it should come as no surprise that interest in Origen has remained consistently hi...

What is it about the great city of Alexandria that so many of its leading Christian intellectuals seem to have never shaken off a certain  s...

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

Whatever his failings in the realm of inter-personal relations (if the Church in Alexandria had an HR department as bothered by busybodies a...

For those interested in books as such, the University of Toronto, which just sent me their new catalogue, has two new books of interest. The...

The pope of Rome's use of that title is generally agreed to be later than the pope of Alexandria--though neither, of course, exactly has...

As I noted before , conflicts over interpretation of Scripture are very commonplace at any point in Christian history.  A new book takes us ...

It was with sadness that I learned of the death of Pope Shenouda III, the Coptic patriarch of Alexandria. In fact, just last weekend in Los ...

Francis Dvornik's 1948 study  The Idea Of Apostolicity In Byzantium And The Legend Of Apostle Andrew   was one of the most important to ...