Eastern Christian Books

The Coptic scholar Lois Farag recently published one book, and late this year will publish another one. The first is  Balance of the Heart: ...

I sometimes think that the only Muslims interested in Jesus are academics and those involved in "professional" dialogues. In my ex...

Wiley Blackwell, continuing a trend they and other major publishers (Oxford, Routledge et al) have been involved with for some time, recentl...

Interest in the musical patrimony of the Christian East continues to grow. Last year I noted an ethnomusicological study which Richard Barre...

For francophone students of female Georgian penitents (surely a huge market, yes?), Peeters has a forthcoming collection of interest to you:...

Last summer in preparation for a paper I gave to the Orthodox Theological Society of America, I read a great deal in French political theory...

As I noted recently , we are this year seeing new interest in St. Basil the Great's works, especially those pertaining to monasticism. C...

There are "Eastern" Christians and then there are really Eastern Christians--those beyond the borders of the Roman Empire who carr...

The events in Egypt over the last 3 years are a source of great sadness--and not a little frustration given how predictable much of this w...

The events from at least 2006 onward, with the so-called Danish cartoons, have brought the concept of iconoclasm in its Islamic forms to the...

Given the propensity for twins in my wife's family, we prepared ourselves for that possibility, but none have shown up so far. If they h...

Earlier I posted some thoughts on Rod Dreher's new book, The Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret ...

For some time now, as I have noted several times before , we have been seeing a resurgence of interest in the study of the Septuagint. Next ...

Though born with a WASPish horror of strong emotion, especially in public (it was, I think, the inimitable Florence King who once said the ...

As we all know, ethno-phyletism and nationalism have long been besetting problems among Eastern Christians,  leading, notably, to their cond...

The pope of Rome's use of that title is generally agreed to be later than the pope of Alexandria--though neither, of course, exactly has...

As I have had many occasions to note on here previously, interest in all things Byzantine, including her iconography, art, and architecture,...

As a student of Alasdair MacIntyre, I retain something of his skepticism about the discourse of "human rights," though his skeptic...

Evangelicals coming into Orthodoxy, or being interested in her traditions, are not new, though some commentators have recently suggested tha...

I've just stumbled upon this site that publishes, in Greek and English as well as several other languages, Orthodox books for children....