Eastern Christian Books

I spent the better part of a day reading and thoroughly enjoying a new book by the Orthodox priest and historian D. Oliver Herbel, whom I pr...

Who among us has not heard people describe themselves as "spiritual but not religious"? Or as not believing in "organized rel...

As I have often commented on here (see here , here , and here , inter alia), the problems of how we use and abuse history remain a serious c...

2014 marks, of course, as I have noted several times recently, the centenary of the outbreak of the so-called Great War, the conflict which,...

Each year during this Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, I pause to do what old Latin manuals for confession call an "examination of c...

A quarter-century ago now, Alasdair MacIntyre, widely recognized as the most influential moral philosopher of the last half-century, wrote t...

Too often today when people think of the "Middle East" they think it's a Muslim stronghold--which in many places it is, and m...

With a colleague, an art historian expert in Renaissance Roman Catholic art, especially in Italy, I'm giving a lecture next month on ...

Oxford University Press has just released the latest book by Eugen J. Pentiuc, professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Holy Cross Greek ...

Nearly twenty years ago now the late Pope John Paul II declared that the question of the presbyteral ordination of women was an officially ...

As I have often noted, few events in history (apart, perhaps, from the sack of Constantinople in 1204, not unconnected to the Crusades) have...

For those interested in books as such, the University of Toronto, which just sent me their new catalogue, has two new books of interest. The...

The recent and ongoing turmoil in Ukraine, where I spent my summer in 2001 and have ever after longed to return to, continues to engender a...

The historian Philip Jenkins , author of a number of books of interest, has a new book coming out in May on--what else in this centenary yea...

Matthew Baker at Fordham e-mailed me in late December about a new volume he has worked on, dealing with Orthodoxy and Thomas Torrance. The t...

Next month Ashgate will publish a book by an author familiar to readers of this blog: Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen, John Moschos' Spiritual M...

One of the little-noticed but deeply significant parts of the Westminster parliamentary system is that the major second party, which does no...

I have frequently noted on here new works about the great, if still sometimes somewhat controverted, Origen of Alexandria. Late in this new ...

Though her scholarship has attracted important and considerable criticism for being partial, polemical, and in some cases tendentious, even ...

Ines Murzaku of Seton Hall University e-mailed me the other day to say she has a new book coming out next year with Peeters, part of their E...

As we get ready to celebrate the nativity of Christ, we are reminded that God did not send an idea into the world or a philosophical system ...

Though Amazon's recent musings about same-day delivery via drones has not of course come to pass, there is still time for you to order b...