Eastern Christian Books

Given the sheer volume of books emerging today, it is hard to maintain excitement for a lot of them, but there are some coming along to whic...

Several times in the past decade we have had important new studies emerge to show us that the separations fondly maintained by some Christia...

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...

As I argued here , I am increasingly convinced that many conflicts within Catholic and Orthodox Christianity today (and between their so-cal...

As I have often noted on here over the past two years especially, the questions of the uses to which the past is often put are very importan...

Last week, when I was at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota at a fantastic conference, discussed here , I met the editor of a forthco...

The local Catholic radio station, Redeemer Radio , is interviewing me later this morning (tune in at 7am!) about my article last month in t...

I've read my share of books and articles about Rasputin over the years, and confess that I am no further ahead in understanding much of ...

As I've noted previously, I am engaged in a project of examining ISIS propaganda and its uses and abuses of "memories" of ...

I have been offering some ad hoc comments  on here as I make my way through a number of new and other books that are helping me to think thr...

The Byzantine liturgical historian Robert Taft's 2000 essay, "Eastern Presuppositions and Western Liturgical Renewal" first al...

I'm looking forward to teaching a course next year on the uses and abuses of history, focusing on Christian-Muslim relations and the eve...

Over the last several years I have come to think more and more that disputes between Eastern and Western Christians turn as often as not on ...

It is something of a commonplace among scholars who study the origins of Islam and its first encounters with Christians that the historical ...

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...

I taught a mini-class on ecclesiology last week, and we spent a great deal of time on papal history and the papacy in general. My students a...

I was asked to go to Brookline later this month to Holy Cross College, the site of this year's meeting of the Orthodox Theological Socie...

Augustine Casiday is a busy and prolific fellow. I interviewed him last September about his massive, and massively impressive, The Orthodox ...

I spent the better part of a day reading and thoroughly enjoying a new book by the Orthodox priest and historian D. Oliver Herbel, whom I pr...

As I have often commented on here (see here , here , and here , inter alia), the problems of how we use and abuse history remain a serious c...