Eastern Christian Books

Well do I remember the controversy in the mid-90s when a handsome young historian at some school or other started putting it about that Chri...

Catholics have grown weary of papal speeches and interviews , whether on airlines or in other fora. The endless yammering has turned even...

Given the on-going turmoil in the Catholic Church over the disciplines of marriage, divorce, re-marriage, and annulments, as well as the pot...

I was startled yesterday to receive in the mail the latest catalogue from Fortress Press containing news of a forthcoming publication by a p...

I was discussing iconoclasm in the West, especially in the Latin Church following Vatican II, with some of my students this week, noting wi...

Boris Jakim has emerged as the single-most prolific translator of East-Slavic theology today, having translated many of Sergius Bulgakov...

Michael Peppard's new book, The World's Oldest Church: Bible, Art, and Ritual at Dura-Europos, Syria (Synkrisis) (Yale UP, 2016), 3...

Yale University Press just sent me their latest catalogue, and in it we find several new and forthcoming works of interest, not least the Or...

Is it a violation of the supposed spirit of Lenten humility to draw attention to one's latest publication? Regardless, here it is: a vol...

On my bedside table for bedtime reading is a book I have started but not yet finished: Marjorie Housepian Dobkin,  Smyrna 1922: The Des...

Interest in all things Byzantine remains as high as ever, as I have noted on here many times. A book published late last year continues th...

Great Lent in the West is very early this year, beginning tonight for Byzantine Christians on the new calendar--about as early as it can be-...

Continuing with some further thoughts on Christianity and psychoanalysis (see here  and here for recent thoughts; and here and here for e...

In the year when at long last Orthodoxy is set to hold its much-anticipated 'great and holy synod,' discussions of conciliarity, syn...

We live, happily, in a boom time for scholars concerned with early Christian-Muslim interactions and relations. I have documented many of th...

</p> <p> In two previous installments discussing The Bishop of Rome in Late Anti...

I was greatly delighted, almost exactly a year ago, to get a call from John Chryssavgis, archdeacon to the Ecumenical Throne and a well publ...

Those of us who listen to the rhetoric emanating out of ISIS will have heard their ritualistic invocation of "the Crusaders" and b...

The more we read about the origins of Islam, the less we can say we know with adamantine certainty. The historiographical issues surrounding...

As I have shown on here many times over the years, interest in Origen of Alexandra has remained very high, perhaps higher than any other Ale...

Though little known today, there is evidence that Eastern Christians once made it as far as the Korean peninsula in the first millennium bef...

As we enter further into 2016, we enter into the third year of sustained violence against Ukraine on the part of Russia. It is easy to lose ...

Some publishers have the luck of timing on their sides. In this year leading up (one hopes!) to the much-promised and much-delayed "gre...

One of the unanswered, and unanswerable, questions in early Christian-Muslim encounters is how many people abandoned Christianity when it wa...

As an inveterate reader of biographies, as well as a scholar of Eastern Christianity with a special fondness for the Coptic Church, I am dou...