Eastern Christian Books

Iran continues to exercise great attention in geopolitics and the media. It is often portrayed as a Muslim theocracy, but that notion overlo...

Interest in the great Origen of Alexandria remains very high today, as I have noted in the past . A new book from the Oxford Early Christian...

It was the Methodist theologian Will Willimon who, about fifteen ago now in a short article in The Christian Century (if my memory serves) w...

I gave a paper at an academic conference last September on the role of holy fools and suggested in the course of my essay, which will be pub...

Daniel Galadza drew my attention to this doctoral dissertation entirely on-line. Written by Jopi Harri at the University of Turku in Finlan...

My friend, the prolific pastoral theologian and Orthodox priest Bill Mills , whom I interviewed last summer , and whose website is here , ha...

The liturgical scholar Daniel Galadza , currently working on his dissertation at the Oriental Institute in Rome and serving this year as a j...

Those who know the history of the East-Roman Empire are not unaware of the role that women played at court and elsewhere, sometimes for good...

As I have noted on here numerous times before, the encounter between Christians and Muslims, of such interest to so many today, first began...

The Huffington Ecumenical Institute at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles is hosting a fascinating symposium in March on ec...

The question of whether Catholic and Orthodox women may be ordained to the diaconate and priesthood continues to be debated, as I noted last...

I am delighted to learn of the recent publication of a new book chronicling the treatment of non-Muslims in the early Islamic empire, a pro...

The Harvard-trained historian Boris Gudziak, author of the extremely important volume Crisis and Reform: The Kyivan Metropolitanate, the Pa...

2012 will see at least two new studies that I am aware of on the person, work, and legacy of that mysterious character known to history as P...

Earlier I mentioned a new book by Uriel Simonsohn,  A Common Justice: The Legal Allegiances of Christians and Jews Under Early Islam  (Unive...

I maintain, of course, an active interest in all matters ecclesiological, having authored a study in the area which, if you somehow managed ...

Johns Hopkins University Press, which focuses primarily on medicine and science, has recently released a new work by Efthymios Nicolaidis (...

Mount Athos, as I noted last year (see here and here ), continues to occupy a very considerable place in what could be called the Eastern C...

As we move into 2012, Catholics--and many others--will begin to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of that landmark ecclesial and ecumenic...