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Thursday, September 30, 2010

Galician Realities

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Many if not most Ukrainian Catholics who came to North America, and many who came out of the Ukrainian Catholic Church to found the OCA and ...

Serving in the Church Today

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The life of those in parish ministry today is not an easy lot. I have many friends who are priests, and have seen their struggles up close. ...

Long Live Robert F. Taft

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The great--greatest--Byzantine liturgical historian Robert F. Taft is one of those people whom I could read and listen to non-stop. The eru...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Jonathan-Riley Smith on the Crusades

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The great Cambridge historian Jonathan Riley-Smith, the dean of Crusades scholars, has said that he despairs of the state of debate about th...

Biblical Interpretation in the Russian Church

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From a German publisher comes a new book devoted to an Orthodox approach to hermeneutical and exegetical questions: Alexander Negrov, Bib...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Yalta and the Post-War Treatment of Eastern Christians

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In another life I think I would have been a military historian. As it is, the two world wars of the past century continue to raise all sorts...

The Worlds of Eastern Christianity 300-1500

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I am very delighted to learn from Ashgate today of a new series they are starting, "The Worlds of Eastern Christianity 300-1500." ...

Communist Iconoclasm

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The prolific Fr. Michael Plekon of Baruch College in the CUNY has a review coming out in Logos of a new book about the struggle to save Rus...

Coptic-Muslim Relations

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Stanford University Press has a new book out that will be expertly reviewed in Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies in the next ye...
Monday, September 27, 2010

Married Priesthood

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William Sametz, My Father the Priest (Toronto: Hypertext, 2008), x+262pp. It is a commonplace that Eastern Christians have married priest...
Saturday, September 25, 2010

Ethno-Phyletism and Nationalism

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Nationalism and ethno-phyletism are, of course, besetting sins among Eastern Christians of all traditions. (For a very useful recent theolog...
Friday, September 24, 2010

Eastern Christian Genocides

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Eastern Christians have known their share of genocides. In fact, Armenians in 1915, and Ukrainians in the Holodomr or Great Terror Famine ...

The Christians of the Middle East

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In the last 12-18 months alone, at least four major books have appeared on the fate of Christians in the Middle East, and an earlier volume,...

Receptive Ecumenism

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Of the thirty-two articles in this volume, Paul D. Murray, ed., Receptive Ecumenism and the Call to Catholic Learning (Oxford UP, 2008 [...

The Byzantine Pre-Sanctified Liturgy

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In the forthcoming issue of Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies, Peter Galadza , titular of the Kule Family Chair in Eastern Chri...

Images from Byzantium

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Books on icons continue to pour forth from all kinds of presses around the world. Interest in icons has never been higher, and it has become...
Thursday, September 23, 2010

Highlights of the Fall Issue of Logos

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The fall issue of Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies is being proofed and finalized now before going to the printer soon, and it...

Cyril of Alexandria's Christology: the Debate Continues

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The Coptic Orthodox nun and scholar, Lois Farag, whose own doctoral dissertation a number of years ago was on St. Cyril of Alexandria, has,...

Theological Anthropology

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Some of the most controverted questions in both Church and society today are anthropological in nature. Two in particular stand out: can wom...

Evagrius Pontus

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Interest in Evagrius of Pontus has exploded. Over a dozen books--and hundreds of articles and reviews--have been published in the last decad...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

The Old Testament in Byzantium

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Dumbarton Oaks, a research centre of Harvard University, has for decades been in the forefront of scholarship on Byzantium, and not merely i...

The Dormition of the Theotokos

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Brill has a new book coming out at the end of the year--part of their well-known scholarly series Vigiliae Christianae Supplements--devoted ...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

East Meets West in Flannery O'Connor's Yurodivy?

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I just got a new book in the mail: Lorraine Murray, The Abbess of Andalusia (Charlotte, NC: St. Benedict's Press, 2010), xxxiii+233pp...

The Desert Fathers and Mothers

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Cistercian Publications has been doing quietly faithful and useful work in bringing out works on Eastern Christian theology and especially m...

Thomas Merton's Sophiology

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Fr. Michael Plekon, in a forthcoming issue of Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies, has a long and very appreciative review of a n...
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