Aleksei Maksimov, Catholic Missiology: History, Theory, Hermeneutics, reviewed by Alison Kolosova
Title: Katolicheskaia Missiologiia: Istoriia, Teoriia, Germenevtika (Catholic Missiology: History, Theory, Hermeneutics) Published by: St Tikhon’s Orthodox University Press (Moscow, 2021) Language: Russian ISBN: 978-5-7429-1363-4 Pages: 384 A new contribution to Orthodox missiological scholarship is [...]
Robin Wheeler, William Palmer: The Oxford Movement and a Quest for Orthodoxy, reviewed by Sebastian Rimestad
Published by Holy Trinity Seminary Press, September 7, 2021 (2nd edition; 1st edition published by Peter Lang, 2006) Language: English ISBN: 978-1-942699-37-8 Pages: 252 + 72 (endnotes, bibliography, & index) William Palmer (1811–1879) was a rather [...]
Is Scholasticism a Pseudomorphosis? Identifying the Political Theology of Fr. Georges Florovsky, by Fr. Cyril Hovorun
I am going to argue that Fr. Georges Florovsky’s famous “Neopatristic synthesis” was also his political theology. This synthesis integrated two concepts, which in Florovsky’s interpretation were opposite: “Christian Hellenism” and the “Western captivity” of [...]
Peter C. Bouteneff, Jeffers Engelhardt, and Robert Saler, eds., Arvo Pärt: Sounding the Sacred, reviewed by Jennifer Newsome Martin
Published by Fordham University Press on December 1, 2020 Language: English ISBN: 978-0823289752 Pages: 256 Eastern Orthodox composer Arvo Pärt (b. 1935) is well-known and much beloved for his classical and religious, often transcendent, music [...]
Regina Elsner, Die Russische Orthodoxe Kirche vor der Herausforderung Moderne [The Russian Orthodox Church Facing the Challenge of Modernity]
Published by Echter Publications on March 12, 2018 Language: German [English translation: The Russian Orthodox Church and Modernity, Ibidem Press, 2021] Series: Das Östliche Christentum, New Series, Volume 63 ISBN: 978-3-429 04207-3 Pages: 407 The relations [...]
Mario Baghos, From the Ancient Near East to Christian Byzantium: Kings, Symbols, and Cities. Reviewed by David Bradshaw
Published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing on March 17, 2021 Language: English ISBN: 9-781527-566279 Pages: 264 Modern cities are dominated by skyscrapers, fitting symbols of the domination of modern life by commerce and finance. It takes an effort [...]
