Eastern Christian Books

In the dozen years this wee blog has been going, there has never been a year, I don't think, without one or more significant publication...

With sections on themes, schools, doctrines, and individuals--including Ps-Denys, Justin the Philosopher/Martyr, Clement of Alexandria, Evag...

Oxford Handbooks, to a few of which I have myself contributed over the years, are always guaranteed to contain great riches. This one, set f...

I think I first met our author, Matthew Briel, at a lovely conference at the University of Saint Thomas in the Twin Cities in July 2017, dev...

Is there a topic more prone to abuse at the hands of tendentious pamphleteers and apologists than original sin? Is there a figure more prone...

Oxford University Press continues to publish its eminently useful collections of leading scholars in various "handbooks," includin...

As I have noted before, InterVarsity Press remains one of the key sources today making patristic and early Christian literature accessible t...

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...

Last fall, in teaching a course on sacraments, I had my students read, inter alia, Hans Boersma,  Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a S...

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...

As I've noted on here many times, we are living in a time when "handbooks of" or "companions to" are all the rage: m...

Given the explosion of scholarship in Eastern Christianity in general, and Orthodoxy in particular, we have for some time, as I've often...

Andrew Louth is one of the leading lights in Orthodox theology and history today, writing important and critically well received works in ch...

To have read anything in Eastern Orthodox theology or patristics over the last thirty years is to have encountered regularly the name of And...

As I noted previously , David Fagerberg of Notre Dame has written one of the best books around introducing us to the topic of liturgical the...

The late Christopher Hitchens and those of his ilk liked to sneer at "religion" and claim it was opposed to "science," ...

Christopher Beeley, a patristics scholar of Yale and author of such previous studies as Gregory of Nazianzus on the Trinity and the Knowledg...

Rublev's Trinity is of course the most well known icon in the world. And it has been nicely studied in a book published a few years ago,...

I noted before Christmas the advent of a new book treating authority in the Russian Church, a topic which I spent some time on in my Ortho...