Oleg Davydov, The Revelation of Love: The Trinitarian Truth of Being. Reviewed by Pavlo Smytsnyuk
Published by St. Andrew’s Biblical Theological Institute (Moscow) on March 2, 2020Language: RussianISBN: 978-5-89647-390-9Pages: xxxviii + 658 The publication of Oleg Davydov’s book The Revelation of Love: The Trinitarian Truth of Being [Откровение Любви: тринитарная истина бытия] sparked a [...]
Terrence Malick, A Hidden Life. Reviewed by Jack Louis Pappas
Managing Director's Note: Terrence Malick is widely regarded as one of the most theologically sensitive and contemplative filmmakers of our time, and such films as his Tree of Life have already been the subject [...]
Angie Heo, The Political Lives of Saints. Reviewed by Sarah Riccardi-Swartz
Published by University of California Press on November 20, 2018Language: EnglishISBN: 978-0520297982Pages: 316 Orthodox Christianity, in its various global formations, has two features that are rarely brought together in thoughtful, intersectional consideration: saints as transtemporal mediators and how socio-political encounters, [...]
Michael Plekon, The World as Sacrament: An Ecumenical Path toward a Worldly Spirituality. Reviewed by Adam DeVille
Published by Liturgical Press on March 24, 2017Language: EnglishISBN: 978-0814645567Pages: 272 A new book by Michael Plekon is always a welcome event. I have often continued to think about, return to, and recommend to my students several of his earlier [...]
Christina Nellist, Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Animal Suffering. Reviewed by Nikolaos Asproulis
Published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing on January 1, 2020Language: EnglishISBN: 978-1527541269Pages: 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 instead on the [...]
Timothy G. Patitsas, The Ethics of Beauty. Reviewed by Robert C. Saler
Published by St. Nicholas Press on January 1, 2020Language: EnglishISBN: 978-1635511000Pages: 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, despite the book’s [...]
