Eastern Christian Books

As I have noted on here over the years, and in public lectures about iconoclasm and iconographic history, all artwork is political, and some...

This book came out some months back, but I missed it until Paulist sent me their most recent catalogue. It treats of a very important issue ...

I yield nothing to anybody in my disdain for Putin and his war against Ukraine, but the current trend of refusing to play Russian music at y...

This exciting book brings together my two favourite Oriental Orthodox churches, the Ethiopian and Armenian in a fascinating survey of cross-...

At the end of this month will emerge a paperback edition of a lovely, important, fascinating book first published several years ago. For all...

As a longtime defender and fan of the Oriental Orthodox Churches, especially the Armenian and Copts, I look forward to the reading a new boo...

Twenty years ago now, in his The Spirit of the Liturgy , then-Cardinal Ratzinger opined that Nicaea II's teachings against iconoclasm an...

Recently released is a book that treats one of the most mysterious and debated figures of Christian antiquity in the context of ante-iconocl...

Aidan Nichols is a prolific fellow, as we have long known. Just a couple of weeks ago I featured his new book on sophiology, and now we have...

Hard to believe just a couple short weeks ago Byzantine Christians were celebrating the Sunday of Orthodoxy with its thunderous commemoratio...

If my experience running an iconography camp in the summer, and regularly being asked to give lectures on Eastern Christian iconography, are...

I am regularly asked to give presentations on the history and theology of images, especially to Roman Catholic crowds desirous of learning m...

The more we study the immediate ante-revolutionary period in Russia the more we are coming to see that there was a fascinating fermentation ...

The hardcover version has been out for a few years, but helpfully a more affordable paperback version will appear this month of John-Paul Hi...

I have for years quoted Joseph Ratzinger's demonstrable claim, in The Spirit of the Liturgy, that part of the explanation for periodic...

It's been almost 40 years since St. Vladimir's Seminary Press published a translation of St. Theodore the Studite's On the Holy ...

This August will see the advent of a book by a scholar whose previous work on iconography, Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity: Orthodox Theo...

One of the things that recent research into iconoclasm, broadly understood, has been revealing is the fact that images have power, and are f...

Over at Catholic World Report, you can read my review of Sr. Jeana Visel's splendid new book, which I have noted on here in the past:  ...

I watched the movie Monuments Men some time back, and thoughts of it came to mind in hearing of this new book by the Tasoula Hadjitofi, The ...