Eastern Christian Books

I confess that the "culture wars" engrossing (truly the apt word in so many ways) so-called American Christianity, already so swol...

Eastern Christians of the Byzantine tradition, immersed in Great Lent, will often celebrate a pre-sanctified liturgy whose authorship, at le...

Starting a good decade or more now all the major academic publishers--led by Oxford, but followed by Cambridge, Routledge, T&T Clark, an...

For more than a decade now, I have used Christos Yannaras's The Freedom of Morality in my moral theology courses to good effect. There ...

In the mid- and late-1990s, I was a volunteer in the pastoral care department of a large nursing home and was saddened by the neglect of man...

Desire seems to have become a topic of increasing interest on the part of theologians recently. I have read several new books and interestin...

In having to choose books for next year for a moral theology class, I've had occasion to go back to old works I've used in the past,...

I was on a panel last spring with Matthew Ashley of Notre Dame talking about Francis's methods as pope, and alluded in passing to a book...

One cannot do any sort of serious philosophy or theology today without attending to the context in which we live, a context that nobody has ...

When it first appeared in 2008, I read with great interest Susan Wessel's fascinating and important study, Leo the Great and the Spiritu...

A visitor from another planet today would be forgiven for thinking that Catholic and Orthodox Christians (and others, too) must be monsters ...

In my classes on Eastern Christianity and the Encounter with Islam, I am regularly asked how a Christian ought to view Allah. Is the God of ...

Earlier I briefly mentioned the recent publication of a collection of articles treating the thought of the Orthodox bioethicist H. Tristram ...