Eastern Christian Books

The University of Notre Dame Press catalogue for spring 2019 has just been released, and in it we spy such forthcoming gems as Alice-Mary Ta...

Does anyone today like bishops, or see them as anything other than a corrupt bunch of self-serving gangsters and sexual abusers? If your loc...

Routledge is one of the most important publishers around today, especially in the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and theology, all of...

It's been out for almost a year, but I just came across a collection of articles,  The Future of Religious Minorities in the Middle East...

Augustine of Hippo occupies a famously ambivalent place in certain Eastern Christian circles. As a rough rule of thumb, one may estimate tha...

More than five years ago now, I noted that the eve of the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War was already occasioning a slew o...

If nothing else has come out of the disaster which Iraq has been for fifteen years now since the neo-imperial American invasion, perhaps one...

I confess to growing weariness with the endless focus on sexual issues today and the endless policing of and editorializing about the same. ...

I've followed the work of the relatively young scholar Jack Tannous for some time, and been consistently impressed. So it is with eager...

If you read my Orthodoxy and the Roman Papacy , you will know that I have a special affection for the Armenian Church, whose structures are ...

I have been a great fan of the work of the Russian Orthodox scholar Antoine Arjakovsky for some time, having previously interviewed him  her...

We have for the better part of two decades now seen an increasing number of books devoted to post-Soviet realities across central, southern,...

Eerdmans recently put into my hands a very impressive collection edited by Paul Mojzes, North American Churches and the Cold War (2018), 56...

Dear readers! How faithfully you have endured a good two weeks and more now without me mentioning psychoanalysis or capitalism! But fear not...

In the latter half of the 1990s I lived in an intentional community, Somerset House, that was deliberately ecumenical. One of my house-mates...

In 2015 I gave several lectures on the centenary of the genocidal massacres of Eastern Christians at Ottoman hands. The best-known of these ...

Stuck as they are by a behemoth to the north, and by the turmoil of the Middle East to the south of them, the Orthodox Christians of Georgia...

Perhaps--given the semi-regular appearance of "Ukraine" in Western headlines over the last few years, given the Russian annexation...

For many years now the questions of memory and the healing of its traumas have preoccupied me, especially in Catholic-Orthodox relations, bu...

I find there are many things to admire about the Copts, beginning with their steadfastness over many centuries in the face of changing polit...

The unwieldy title of this new book is perhaps fitting in some ways insofar as the relationship it treats is, to put it mildly, unwieldy als...

This interview with Alan Jacobs is worth your time. In it he discusses his newest book, The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an...

I have been a fan of Vigen Guroian for some time since he most unexpectedly won me over with his two books on gardening , an activity I tho...

Much has been made of resurgent Russian nationalism over the last two decades, outbreaks of which are in part behind the invasion of Ukraine...