Eastern Christian Books

I was pleased and honoured to have been asked, nearly a decade ago now, to contribute to this forthcoming collection, part of a series of su...

Justin Coyle , a young and formidably wise scholar whom one should keep an eye on in the years ahead and of whom one continues to expect gre...

Coming out in May of this year is a book that focuses on those fascinating proto-ecumenical encounters of Eastern Christians with their West...

I have previously drawn attention to the fascinating books of the historian Phillip Wood who treats early Muslim-Christian encounters in Ir...

Released just last month under the editorship of Mary Ann Hinsdale  and Stephen Okey, the T&T Clark Handbook of Theological Anthropology...

Being Christian (and, worse, being an American Christian) does not prevent one from succumbing to politically tendentious mythologies and st...

The always-fascinating Syriac tradition constitutes, in the charmingly inapt metaphor of the great Syracist Sebastian Brock of Oxford, the ...

I previously posted a brief notice about this book,  Christians under the Crescent and Muslims under the Cross c.630 - 1923 by Luigi Berto ...

I will give the credit to Alexander Schmemann of blessed memory for reminding me many years ago now that the one who studies and teaches th...

The Shepherd of Hermas is a wild ride. I enjoy watching students try to figure out how to interpret the text when I have assigned it over th...

Scott Kenworthy writes deeply learned, but accessible and always fascinating,  books on Russian Orthodox Christianity that are always worth...

April is just around the corner, and that means that you can soon order my next book, Married Priests in the Catholic Church , which the Uni...

Just released last month, this new T&T Clark Handbook of Septuagint Research , eds. William A. Ross  and W. Edward Glenny (T&T Clark...

I almost avoided posting this notice of a forthcoming book for I am beyond tired of certain people traducing Soviet history in their transpa...

No truly serious library devoted to Byzantine and Eastern Christian studies will ever want to be without an up-to-date subscription to the o...

Growing up an Anglican altar boy, I was fascinated by vestments, and utterly, secretly thrilled when I first got to done cassock and surplic...

A new book by David Fagerberg will always rocket to the top of one's must-read lists for he is one of the outstanding  commentators on t...

For those who, as I noted on Monday, have begun their time in the Lenten desert, the themes of conflict, battle, and asceticism will be fore...

To grow up as I did in Canada with any interests in literature and theology meant that you were more or less compelled to read the great lit...

The Gregorian paschalion is out by a month this year from the Julian, the latter having Pascha on the first Sunday of May, the former on the...

The complex realities of Muslim-Orthodox interactions in Russia continue to fascinate, and to repay careful study. A recent book builds on a...

I've been neglectful in not pointing out to you a book and author interview I did at the other blog I maintain. It is a book that overl...

To my delight, I was invited last year to give a lecture at a Harvard symposium later this spring that is focused on bringing together a ve...

Edited by two major scholars in the field, published in perhaps the most prestigious series for Byzantine scholarship in the anglophone worl...

On Monday I received in the mail a handsome and worthy volume that does honour to the outstanding inaugural conference of the International ...