Eastern Christian Books

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Searching for Sacred Images

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Aidan Nichols is a prolific fellow, as we have long known. Just a couple of weeks ago I featured his new book on sophiology, and now we have...
Monday, April 27, 2020

OCA's 50th Anniversary of Autocephaly

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I have long been an admirer of the Orthodox Church of America, not least for its structures set up at and after its grant of autocephaly in ...
Friday, April 24, 2020

Old Believers in the Tsarist Empire

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Old Believers have long been on my list of interesting groups I should like to investigate more fully when the time allows. Robert Crummey...
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Titles Spied While Strolling through the LRB

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In the 20 February 2020 issue of the wonderful London Review of Books, the lead review by Erin Maglaque, an historian at Sheffield, examines...
Monday, April 20, 2020

Ecclesiology in Practice

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When I first began studying ecclesiology twenty years ago, it was common to read things like the 20th century was the "century of the C...
Thursday, April 16, 2020

Memoirs and History of the Armenian Genocide

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For a lecture I was to give in Europe in June (now postponed until next year for obvious reasons), I was asked to focus on the role of traum...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020

St Thomas Christians in India

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In my time working for the World Council of Churches in the 1990s, I often encountered so-called Thomas Christians from India. As I was very...
Friday, April 10, 2020

Islamic Prophethood Understood Thomistically?

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Christianity has never spoken with one voice on just about anything, including how Muhammad should be regarded. Some dismiss him as a delusi...
Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Orthodox Liturgy Phenomenologically Understood

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I wonder if the author this book, released late last year, has suddenly realized she may need to write a second volume, devoted to the pheno...
Friday, April 3, 2020

The Crucifixion of Eros: An Interview with Matthew Clemente

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Now more than ever the rashness of predicting the future is revealed in all its futility, but nonetheless I will make bold to say that the f...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

The Sophiology Man

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The English Dominican Aidan Nichols long ago emerged as one of the most serious Latin interlocutors with and scholars of the Christian East....
Friday, March 27, 2020

The Acts of Nicaea II

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Hard to believe just a couple short weeks ago Byzantine Christians were celebrating the Sunday of Orthodoxy with its thunderous commemoratio...
Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Theology in Africa

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With chapters on Ethiopian Orthodoxy and many other topics and traditions, the Routledge Handbook of African Theology ,  ed., Elias Kifon Bo...
Monday, March 23, 2020

John Jillions on God's Guidance in the World

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What a time to have a book appear about divine guidance! The endless, and on the whole very depressing, debates among Catholic and Orthodox ...
Friday, March 20, 2020

Austerity Reading

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All week, as this new reality continues to settle in upon us, I have been regularly thinking of my Glaswegian grandparents living through th...
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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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