Eastern Christian Books

On this Great and Holy Friday, as we behold the One who hung the heavens hanging on the cross in a sacrifice that ends all sacrifice, we hav...

What a curious stroke of timing that two books showed up in my mailbox yesterday. I'm half tempted to read them together and write about...

It was a good four years ago now, perhaps longer, that I was first asked by a Catholic publisher for my thoughts on the debate over marriage...

David Fagerberg, of whose books (discussed here ) I am very fond, having often assigned them to students over the years, e-mailed me recentl...

This fascinating article , about varying memories, many nostalgic and romanticized, of Joseph Stalin in his native Georgia, confirms what I ...

I am both glad and relieved to see that Northern Illinois University Press continues to publish in the areas of Russian Orthodox history and...

I have often commented on here over the past few years about the many books of the English literary scholar and psycho-analyst Adam Phillips...

Every group, nation, state, culture, or even church or religious group tends to write the history of its founding and of its past with a cer...

One of the things that recent research into iconoclasm, broadly understood, has been revealing is the fact that images have power, and are f...

Released late last year is a new collection, Creation "ex nihilo": Origins, Development, Contemporary Challenges, edited by Gary A...

The German Catholic bishops recently gave that reliably tiresome hysteric Rod Dreher another chance to collapse on his fainting couch in res...

The University of Notre Dame Press sent me their newest catalogue; but it was in reviewing the back lists that brought to my attention a boo...

Since doing some field research with a graduate student of mine back in 2013, when we visited the remnants of the Byzantine Franciscans in S...

I had known for some time that this collection was in the works, but it was only late last week that the University of Notre Dame Press put ...

It seems somewhere in the 1980s Christians all over the world woke up one morning and began to theologize about the body. The trend took off...

The Orthodox scholar George Demacopoulos (some of whose publications I have noted on here over the years, and whom I interviewed about his ...

When we were last met to discuss Maggie Ross's wonderfully cool diagnosis of much that ails us, Silence: A User's Guide , I sketche...

Last week I gave you a taste of what was in store if you buy a copy of Fr. Paul Tarazi's new wonderfully refreshing and provocative new...