Eastern Christian Books

I was invited to give a lecture at this "Stolen Churches" conference in Germany last summer, but was unable to take up the invitat...

For a lecture I was to give in Europe in June (now postponed until next year for obvious reasons), I was asked to focus on the role of traum...

This is a new international collection of scholarly articles that is rich on promise and offers encouraging evidence of theology moving into...

One of the issues that has haunted me for a long time, especially in Orthodox-Catholic relations, is what to do with the memories of our div...

Back in 2016 I began exploring  several new works treating the theme of forgetting as an unexplored category for how we treat controversial...

I have for many years been fascinated with, and written numerous articles about, the questions of remembering and forgetting among Christian...

I'm finishing revisions to a lecture I gave just over a year ago now at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota on salutary oubliance,...

I recently noted yet another publication devoted to the long-term psychological effects of the Armenian Genocide. And then Herder and Herde...

To my mind one of the most important and far-reaching insights Freud first helped us to understand, and many analysts --as well as other ps...

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

As I noted previously , among its several virtues, David Rieff's new and important book,  In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and...

As it happened, I was sitting out toward dusk on perhaps the loveliest summer evening so far, finishing the reading of David Rieff's pow...

As I noted last summer, I have become more and more fascinated not just with the uses and abuses of memory--in the context of, e.g., the ...

I have for some time been ever more fascinated with the uses and abuses of the past, with questions of memory and forgetting, particularly i...

As I noted on here a few weeks ago, my attention has lately been riveted on the question of memory and forgetting, especially in the contex...

More than a decade ago now I wrote several articles on the concept of the "healing of memories," a phrase that Pope John Paul II p...

I have written several articles on the whole concept of the "healing of memories" and the necessary exchange of forgiveness and re...

NPR's blog "Being" (formerly "Speaking of Faith") here publishes some of my further thoughts on Pope John Paul II ...

In thinking about Pope John Paul's pontificate on the occasion of his beatification this weekend I am reminded of many things he accompl...