Eastern Christian Books

For more than a decade now, I have used Christos Yannaras's The Freedom of Morality in my moral theology courses to good effect. There ...

I have long had a soft spot in my heart for Romanian Orthodoxy. When I was heavily involved in the World Council of Churches in the 1990s, I...

As a longtime defender and fan of the Oriental Orthodox Churches, especially the Armenian and Copts, I look forward to the reading a new boo...

I am not by nature the sort of person who easily or regularly finds himself attending political rallies, marches, and protests. But I have n...

As we have just finished the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, we continue nonetheless to learn about its aftermath. I re...

I'm teaching an historiography course this semester and it is one of the most rewarding things I have done in a very long time. I have o...

If I had lots of time and money, and the requisite languages, I have long wanted to go and spend endless amounts of time immersed in Ottoman...

Oxford Handbooks, to a few of which I have myself contributed over the years, are always guaranteed to contain great riches. This one, set f...

Like periods before the French or American revolutions, it has been customary in some quarters to portray the period before the Russian Revo...

One of the tasks I face with my students when looking at the history of Orthodox-Muslim encounters is to help them grasp the idea that one c...

I was born into the Anglican Church of Canada just a few short years before it decided to proceed with the ordination of women. By the time ...

Several years ago I taught a very fun freshman seminar called "Eating God." We looked at the history, economics, politics, geograp...

I was invited to give a lecture at this "Stolen Churches" conference in Germany last summer, but was unable to take up the invitat...

My entry into the world of academic theology, in the latter half of the 1990s, coincided almost exactly with the advent of the Radical Ortho...

Amidst the endless, and increasingly tedious, debates among Catholics at least over the Second Vatican Council--debates which are also about...

Continuing with their admirable and welcome publication of the texts of the ecumenical councils, Liverpool University Press, whose previous ...

Strolling through the Oxford University Press of forthcoming publications is always a delight, but never more so than when espying names of ...

I have previously and recently spoken of some of the things I learned from the late Byzantine historian Robert Taft, not least at a confere...

When trying to dissuade some of my more gung-ho American students from their romanticized assumptions that political movements for reform al...

I think I first met our author, Matthew Briel, at a lovely conference at the University of Saint Thomas in the Twin Cities in July 2017, dev...

I confess to automatic skepticism whenever I read of an attempt to counter-pose "Western" and "Eastern" Christologies (o...