Eastern Christian Books

Thursday, June 28, 2018

Inventing Gregory Palamas

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I just received in the mail Oxford University Press's catalogue of forthcoming works. As always, there are lots of interesting books in ...
Wednesday, June 27, 2018

John Henry Newman

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While John Henry Newman is a pivotal figure in 19th-century Western Catholic Christianity, he is unique insofar as he is not confined there ...
Monday, June 25, 2018

Neilos of Rossano and His Life

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Ines Murzaku recently sent me a copy of her newest publication, which I very gladly draw to your attention. She has graciously agreed to an ...
Saturday, June 23, 2018

Austerity Britain

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This book has nothing especially to do with Eastern Christianity; but I make note of it in case there are others who would be interested in ...
Friday, June 22, 2018

Ukrainian Catholic and Russian Orthodox Perspectives on the Ps-Sobor of 1946

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Last week, Daniel Galadza (author of this book which you must read) and I finished editing a volume we hope to see in print next year:  The...
Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Religions and the Public Squares of Our Time

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A full thirty years ago now, the late Richard John Neuhaus (whose biographer, Randy Boyagoda, has done a splendid job here ) continued to ma...
Monday, June 18, 2018

Soloviev and Divinization

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Among the "rediscovered" themes and personages of contemporary Eastern Christian scholarship, and Christian theology more generall...
Friday, June 15, 2018

Praying with the Senses

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I've previously noted a new interest in the role of the senses within Christian experience, a trend that was begun in part by the Ortho...
Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Armenia Christiana: Between Old Rome and New

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I have long been fascinated by the Armenian Church. In my Orthodoxy and the Roman Papacy , I spent no little time on her because her structu...
Monday, June 11, 2018

Ashley Purpura on God, Hierarchy, and Power

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I briefly met Ashley Purpura last November at a conference on the future of the liberal arts hosted at Purdue University. I have been greatl...
Friday, June 8, 2018

The Image of Christ in Russian Literature

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Northern Illinois University Press continues to be in the front lines of scholarship about Russian history, including Russian Christian and ...
Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Biblical Images and Liturgy

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In his often very droll and always very enlightening Christianity in the West 1400-1700 , the late John Bossy noted that the motto of the Re...
Monday, June 4, 2018

Jesus in Asia

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It has long been known, if only to certain scholars, that Christianity (especially Assyrian and Syriac Christianity) spread far into Asia ...
Friday, June 1, 2018

Christian Politics: Is There Any Such Thing?

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As someone who grew up in and remains a citizen of Her Britannic Majesty's Canadian Dominion, I watch many things in these United States...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Marxism and Psychoanalysis (I)

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Before the month of May--the month of the birth of both Freud (whose usefulness to Christianity I've argued elsewhere), and Marx--passes...

Georgian Church Music

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I don't know about you, but my library is rather thin on works devoted to Georgian and related musical traditions. Those interested in s...
Monday, May 28, 2018

Between Christ and Caliph

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As I have often noted on here over the years, the legal status of minority Christians under Islam is both governed by certain well-known cod...
Friday, May 25, 2018

Justice and Redress in Romania

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For two years and more now, here and elsewhere, I have been examining questions of historical memory and reconciliation in a variety of cont...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

The Complexities of Monotheism

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Often my students, including many self-identified Christian ones, have to admit, at least grudgingly, that they do not really understand Tri...
Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Maximus the Confessor on Scripture's Difficulties

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As I have often noted on here, there are several figures around whom explosions of new publications have been found in the last two decades,...
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I am associate professor of psychology at the University of Saint Francis in Ft. Wayne, IN. I have published several books and scores of articles. With an extensive background in psychoanalysis, I am now also in private practice part-time as a psychotherapist.
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