Eastern Christian Books

As we have just finished the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, we continue nonetheless to learn about its aftermath. I re...

All week, as this new reality continues to settle in upon us, I have been regularly thinking of my Glaswegian grandparents living through th...

It has been said for years that one of the factors holding up the canonization of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky is some concern around what...

Continuing with some ad hoc notes of interesting books discussed in the LRB, first up is an interesting essay with obvious connections to th...

Timothy Snyder's several books have attracted the interest and plaudits of not a few Eastern Christians, especially in Ukraine. This int...

This book has nothing especially to do with Eastern Christianity; but I make note of it in case there are others who would be interested in ...

For those interested in political diaries, and for those who want glimpses inside the mind of Soviet diplomacy before and during the Second ...

As these recent anniversary years have ticked by, commemorating the two world wars and the genocides associated with them, we have seen gre...

The University of Toronto Press catalogue was waiting for me in my mailbox after the break. It tells us of several books forthcoming in 2016...

Though, as I have noted recently , the focus this year is on the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, next year represents the ...

In my Orthodoxy and the Roman Papacy: Ut Unum Sint and the Prospects of East-West Unity , I spend a good bit of time describing Russian Ort...

A quarter-century ago now, Alasdair MacIntyre, widely recognized as the most influential moral philosopher of the last half-century, wrote t...

This time next year we will, no doubt, be greeted with a barrage of stories about the centenary of the outbreak in August 1914 of what was a...

In a different life, I probably would have been a military historian. As it is, my bedtime reading for nearly a decade now has basically run...