Eastern Christian Books

Simeon (Semyon) Frank remains a fascinating figure from the so-called Silver Age of Russian letters. I have noticed an upsurge of interest ...

Every semester for more than a decade I have made regular use of maps in my classes, especially those devoted to Muslim-Christian relations ...

I noted this book on here many years ago when it first came out, but this year we have a papaerback edition of Ramsay MacMullen's  Votin...

Eastern Christians, especially some of those we today call, or who call themselves, Ukrainians, were for a very long time bound up with the ...

Regular readers of this blog, and especially my book Everything Hidden Shall Be Revealed: Ridding the Church of Abuses of Sex and Powe r, wi...

Morwenna Ludlow is well known among patristics scholars, not least for her book Gregory of Nyssa , which I profitably read many years ago. S...

At the Other Place , you will find some thoughts on sadomasochism and its dynamics in a Christian context. 

At the end of this month will emerge a paperback edition of a lovely, important, fascinating book first published several years ago. For all...

One of Freud's longest and closest friendships was with Oskar Pfister, a Swiss Reformed pastor (discussed briefly here ) who immediately...

The influence of Stalin on the destruction of Eastern Christian churches--Catholic and Orthodox--is notorious. I have read a couple biograph...

This blog just passed its tenth anniversary, which I only realized now, a few weeks after the fact. If you go back to those early days of in...

Late Ottoman history, including the founding of various Orthodox nation-states out of that empire on a wave of nationalism, remains a topic ...

One of the self-congratulatory illusions (in the strict Freudian sense) that some Orthodox apologists like to tell themselves is that their ...

Angelico Press continues to have some of the most interestingly diverse lists of contemporary Catholic publishers, and continues their admir...

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 ...