Eastern Christian Books

Les Éditions du Cerf continues to bring out welcome studies on Orthodoxy and patristics for francophone Orthodoxy, including this recent vo...

Dimiter Angelov of the University of Birmingham has recently authored a book that sheds further light on the politics of the East-Roman Empi...

Though the patriarch of Moscow does not command the press attention that the patriarch and pope of Rome does, the former is nonetheless a si...

Serhii Plokhy, the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University, has done so much to advance our understanding o...

One of the most important and influential, if at times baffling or ambigous, Fathers of the Church remains St. Gregory of Nyssa, on whom, as...

Interest in Origen, as I have noted frequently, remains very high today. He was one of the most influential figures of early Christianity an...

Just released this month is a new collection that will interest Byzantinists especially: Alice-Mary Talbot and Scott Fitzgerald Johns...

I have previously drawn attention to the conferences of the Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture (ASEC) and ...

As I have noted before , we are still struggling to learn about the first encounters between Eastern Christians and Islam in the first mille...

Gorgias Press , whose lists on Eastern Christianity and much else besides are among the most impressive in the world, is coming out with a n...

The role of Platonism in shaping Christianity, from antiquity to the present, continues to be debated by Christians of all traditions today....

As we are rapidly coming on the centenary of the outbreak of World War I, we are seeing new books examining the legacy of that event which m...

Interest in Origen of Alexandria, as I have noted repeatedly , remains high. His influence is to be found in rather unlikely places such as ...

Who among us--parents or children--has not argued over the "appropriateness" of wearing some get-up or other to church? Who among ...

Northern Illinois University Press, as I have noted before, continues to publish fascinating books in their welcome and acclaimed series on ...

I have previously drawn attention to a recently released documentary on DVD about the Nicene Creed:  The Creed: What Christians Profess, an...

As I have had many occasions to note on here, books about icons continue to be among the most popular today in all of Eastern Christian stu...

As I have noted several times before, interest in the Crusades remains high; so does gross misunderstanding or tendentious misrepresentati...

If you read my  Orthodoxy and the Roman Papacy: Ut Unum Sint and the Prospects of East-West Unity  you will note in there my indebtedness to...

I have discussed before the very serious and unmet challenges posed, at least in and to Western ecclesiology, by the broad phenomenon of co...

As I have noted before, books on Byzantine iconography continue to pour forth from all manner of presses, but works on Coptic iconography ...

William T. Cavanaugh et al, eds.,  An Eerdmans Reader in Contemporary Political Theology  (Eerdmans, 2011), 836pp. About this book the ...

Hendrickson Publishers continues to publish numerous reference books of interest to readers of the Septuagint and the Greek Fathers. Among ...

I have before drawn attention to the importance of Irenaeus of Lyons, and the upsurge of scholarly interest in him lately. Now a new book, ...

As I noted before , conflicts over interpretation of Scripture are very commonplace at any point in Christian history.  A new book takes us ...