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Christina Nellist’s Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Animal Suffering, reviewed by Nikolaos Asproulis
ISBN: 978-1527541269 Published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing on January 1, 2020 Language: English Pages: 436 Due to its strong liturgical, or rather meta-historical vision, the Orthodox Church often expresses an ambiguity towards its engagement with historical and social affairs, focusing …Read More
Timothy G. Patitsas’s The Ethics of Beauty, reviewed by Robert C. Saler
ISBN: 978-1635511000 Published by St. Nicholas Press on January 1, 2020 Language: English Pages: 748 Timothy Patitsas, who teaches ethics at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, MA, has written a genuinely massive tome (748 pages). However, …Read More
Carrie Frederick Frost, Maternal Body: A Theology of Incarnation from the Christian East, reviewed by Helen Creticos Theodoropoulos
by Carrie Frederick Frost ISBN: 978-0809153916 Published by Paulist Press on May 28, 2019 Language: English Pages: 107 Over the course of Christian history, innumerable sermons, theological treatises, scholarly studies, dogmatic declarations, and sacred hymns and icons have confessed, celebrated …Read More
David Bradshaw Reviews Two Conferences on Gender and Sexuality
“Chastity, Purity, Integrity: Orthodox Anthropology and Secular Culture in the 21st Century” Holy Trinity Seminary, Jordanville, New York, USA, March 7-9, 2019 “Speaking the Truth in Love: A Conference Addressing Sexuality and the Human Being” St. Tikhon’s Seminary, South Canaan, …Read More
Viktor Alexandrov, Nicholas Afanasiev and His Eucharistic Ecclesiology, reviewed by Anastacia Wooden
ISBN: 978-5-89100-194-7 Published by Saint Philaret’s Christian Orthodox Institute on 2018 Language: Russian Pages: 224 Nicholas Afanasiev (1893–1966), a Russian Orthodox historian of the early church who specialized in the early councils and canonical decrees, today is best known for …Read More
David C. Ford responds to Michael Plekon’s review of David Bentley Hart, That All Shall Be Saved
by David Bentley Hart ISBN: 978-0-300-24622-3 Published by Yale University Press on September 24, 2019 Language: English Pages: 232 Without going very deeply into any of the issues involved due to space constraints, I would like to address certain problems …Read More
Norman Russell, Gregory Palamas and the Making of Palamism in the Modern Age, reviewed by Tikhon Alexander Pino
ISBN: 978-0199644643 Published by Oxford University Press on May 21, 2019 Language: English Pages: 288 St. Gregory Palamas (1296–1357) achieved a remarkable popularity in the twentieth century. Once denigrated as a curiosity of the dissident Orthodox Church (Graecorum recentiorum), Palamas …Read More
Ernesto Sergio Mainoldi, Behind “Dionysius the Areopagite”: The Genesis and Aims of the Corpus Dionysiacum, reviewed by Matthew Briel
by Ernesto Sergio Mainoldi ISBN: 978-8831115544 Published by Città Nuova on June 28, 2018 Language: Italian Pages: 632 Mainoldi has written an exciting book that reads like a “Whodunit,” a detective story in which the reader is invited to engage …Read More
David Bentley Hart, That All Shall be Saved: Heaven, Hell & Universal Salvation, reviewed by Michael Plekon
by David Bentley Hart ISBN: 978-0-300-24622-3 Published by Yale University Press on September 24, 2019 Language: English Pages: 232 Note: David C. Ford responds to Michael Plekon’s review here. It says something about an author or a book …Read More
Oleksandr Kashchuk, Monothelitism in Byzantium of the Seventh Century: Doctrine, Politics and Ideology of Power, reviewed by Mariya Horyacha
by Oleksandr Kashchuk ISBN: 978-617-10-0530-3 Published by Ivan Franko National University of Lviv on 2019 Language: Ukrainian Pages: 344 Oleksandr Kashchuk’s monograph originated as a doctoral dissertation at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. As the author explains in the …Read More