Eastern Christian Books

Eastern Christians of the Byzantine tradition, immersed in Great Lent, will often celebrate a pre-sanctified liturgy whose authorship, at le...

S lowly, reluctantly, in a world where there is already so much suffering and sacrifice, especially in Ukraine at the moment, the fast of Gr...

Readers of my two books in ecclesiology will be aware of my love for the Armenian tradition. So it is an especial delight for me to see tha...

I well remember the moment (or do I? how reliable are senses and memories anyway?) at the turn of the century when we started seeing books d...

I have previously and regularly hailed the efforts of Liverpool University Press to bring out volumes in their series Translated Texts for H...

In the hands of some, "the Christian East" and cognate phrases is often used to refer to what later generations might know as ...

I noted on here only last week a new book about Origen, in whom interest has remained very high this century. In April of this year, Oxford ...

I am just old enough to remember when it seemed suddenly one day people in theology (at least in Canada) woke up and "discovered" ...

It remains forever fascinating to me to see how much interest in and controversy over Origen of Alexandria one still finds today. As I have ...

Nationalism has long been a besetting problem within Eastern Christianity and attracts regular critical attention today, but it has roots th...

The role of Islam in Turkey has been changing since the turn of this century, after having changed a lot at the turn of the previous century...

I am very glad to see that the Coptic tradition continues steadily to garner more and more scholarly attention. Our knowledge will only incr...

I mentioned a few weeks back the problem of trendy verbs and nouns dominating scholarly publications for a while. There is arguably no great...

If it is granted unto me to live long enough, and to write another book in theology proper (my next two will both be in psychotherapy), I wo...

My two books in ecclesiology both gave pride of place to the Armenian Church, so I always keep an eye out for new scholarship on Armenia a...

A little over six years ago I interviewed a young scholar of Syriac Christianity. You may read that interview here . Since then, we have see...

There are certain verbs and nouns which become trendy and suddenly one sees their proliferation in book and article titles for a decade or s...

Good news! Forthcoming in March this year will be a more affordable paperback edition of a book first published a few years ago, which makes...

We live in a happy time when, as I have tried to document on here for over a decade, scholarship devoted to Muslim-Christian relations, in w...

The office of the Roman papacy, of course, attracts huge attention, including from scholars. But the patriarchate of New Rome attracts consi...

Have you been reading Job Getcha's books? He had two come out in the last 12 months on liturgy. The most recent of these is  The Eucholo...

That dreary class of human beings called American political pundits has already been aflutter for some time wondering about (and in some mor...

Is it just me--and am I taxing your patience with a bit of psychoanalytic introspection you'd rather not be subject to?--or is it funny ...

Somewhat confusingly, Amazon apparently has copies of this to sell now, even though it was advertised on their site and elsewhere as not bei...

If you go here , you will learn a little bit about Nicholas Denysenko's superb book on the Theophany. And if you go here you will wonde...