Showing posts with label Sidney Griffith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sidney Griffith. Show all posts
Monday, May 8, 2017

On the Once and Future Melkite Church

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With the news of the resignation of the Melkite Patriarch Gregory III Laham comes, no doubt all too briefly, a return to focusing on Arab C...
Saturday, June 11, 2016

The Oxford Handbook of Abrahamic Religions

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Oxford University Press's series of "Handbooks" on various topics have been emerging for years now, and I have been pleased to...
Friday, September 25, 2015

The Bible in....Arabic? What? Didn't Jesus Speak the Queen's English?

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I drew attention to this book when it appeared in hardback a few years ago, but next month Princeton University Press is bringing out a pape...
Thursday, May 21, 2015

Missionary Stories and Syriac Churches

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We are living in boom times for the study of Syriac Christianity--relative, of course, to the previous neglect. A pioneering generation of s...
Monday, September 22, 2014

Christians Living Under Islam

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Perhaps now more than ever, the world is aware of the plight of Eastern Christians under Islam. But scholarship is still emerging on those m...
Friday, May 9, 2014

The Orthodox Church in the Arab World: An Interview

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Last night I was editing a couple of article on Louis Massignon and his influence on Vatican II's understanding of Islam and the Catholi...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

The Quran and the Gospels

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Emerging scholarship has been suggesting more and more that there are deep links between early Islamic literature and extant Christian liter...
Friday, November 2, 2012

Andrew Sharp on Orthodox Dialogue with Islam

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A new and welcome book, very cogently written, to which I previously drew brief attention , continues to help us understand the relationship...