Eastern Christian Books

On this Remembrance Day (as Her Britannic Majesty's Canadian Dominion calls it) or Veterans Day (as the American Republic styles it), ou...

How ought Eastern Christians to relate to the sciences in such matters as, e.g., creation or sexuality? How can we understand the relationsh...

I have just received a fascinating new book written by Hans Boersma: Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry (Eerdman...

Of the books about icons, there is no end. A recent collection takes an expansive look at Slobodan Curcis and Evangelia Hadjitryphonos with ...

Of the study of the Fathers there is no end. This is especially true if one of those Father happens to have been as influential as, e.g., Au...

I have been listening to Ancient Faith Radio's coverage of the sixteenth All-America Council of the Orthodox Church of America. One of t...

I have on several occasions previously noted the important work  of the Russian Orthodox historian Antoine Arjakovsky , author of such works...

As the Orthodox theologian Theodore Pulcini wrote last year in Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies, the dialogue between Christia...

I am delighted that T&T Clark has just now put into my hands the most recent book of the great Greek theologian John Zizioulas, Eucharis...

In my classes on Eastern Christianity and the Encounter with Islam, I am regularly asked how a Christian ought to view Allah. Is the God of ...

Syria is of course much in the news today because of on-going political instability and unrest in this year of the so-called Arab Spring. Re...

Aidan Hart has just published what looks to be a most impressive book on the techniques of icon painting. (I am aware that some insist on sp...

Two months from today, if you can imagine, is Christmas. It's not too early to start thinking about what gifts would give the greatest d...

As what we today call Islam begins in the seventh century its campaign of expansion out of the Arabian peninsula and into Syria, Egypt, and ...

Great are the numbers of commentaries on Romans by prominent theologians ancient and modern. But in the modern period, Eastern studies of th...

Those of you in Rome or with easy access to it may be interested to know of a book launch on October 26th at 5:30pm*  at the Centro Russia E...

Reference works about Eastern Christianity have increasingly appeared in the last decade. In 2001 we had the very useful  Blackwell Dictiona...

Earlier this year, in a long review of a fascinating new collection, I drew attention in particular to the work of Radu Bordeianu on Dumitru...

Many people today, alas, know little history, and even less Christian, specifically doctrinal, history. They are as a result often upset to ...

Interest in the Fathers, especially those of the deserts of Egypt, remains high. In the last decade more than a dozen books have appeared. E...

Those of us who have spent 2011 very anxiously watching events unfold in Egypt cannot but have an increasingly sickening feeling that initia...

Twice in as many years, I have heard lectures by Amy Slagle of the University of Southern Mississippi, and both were fascinating. Both were...