Book Reviews

This is a hard topic to organize and I cannot decide what the best way to do it is.  My suggestion is to search by author or book title.  I offer both a list of authors and titles and you can check the review further down the page.  The links to the pages are in the categories further down.

BREAKDOWN

 

• Authors

• Book Titles

• Patristic

• Hagiography

• History

• Other

• Church History and Other Books

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AUTHORS

 

A                             M

Alfeyev, Bishop Hilarion      MacMullen, Ramsey

                              Marsden, Victor E.

B                             Mathewes-Green, Frederica

Brock, Sebastian              Meyendorff, John

 

C                             P

Cavarnos, Dr. Constantine     Papadakis, Aristeides

Chrestou, Panagiotes          Papadiamandros, Alexandros

                              Pelikan, Jaroslav

D                            

di Berardino, Angelo          R

                              Rankin, David Ivan

G                             Rose, Fr. Seraphim

Greenman, Jeffrey P.          S

                              Spetsieris, Archimandrite  

H                               Joachim

Husbands, Mark

                              Y

L                             Yannaras, Christos

Lossky, Vladimir

                              z

                              Zizioulas, John D.

 

 

BOOK TITLES

 

A

• Ancient Faith for the Church's Future
• Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian (The)

 

B

• Being as Communion: Studies in the Personhood of the Church
• Bible in the Syriac Tradition (The)
• Boundless Garden (The)

 

C

• Christian East and the Rise of the Papacy (The)
• Church and Her Doctrine - Medieval Catholicism (The) in his series entitled, "The Christian Tradition”

 

D

• Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs

 

E

• ESV Study Bible

 

F

• First Fruits of Prayer: A Forty-Day Journey Through the Canon of St. Andrew
• From Clement to Origen: The Social and Historical Context of the Church Fathers

 

G

• Greek Orthodox Patrology

 

H

• Hermitess Photini (The)

 

M

• Modern Orthodox Saints (Series)
• Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church (The)

 

O

• Orthodox Readings of Augustine

 

P

• Patrology: The Eastern Fathers from the Council of Chalcedon (451) to John of Damascus (+750)
• Person and Eros
• Protocols of the Elders of Zion (The)

 

R

• "Road to Emmaus" (the journal)
• Royal Cross of Our Lord Leading to Eternal Life (The)

 

S

• Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
• St. Symeon the New Theologian and Orthodox Tradition
• Steps of Transformation: An Orthodox Priest Explores the Twelve Steps
  

 

V

• Voting About God at Early Church Councils

 

 

BOOKS ON ORTHODOXY

PATRISTIC

• Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev, "St. Symeon the New Theologian and Orthodox Tradition" (reviewed by Kevin P. Edgecomb and by Hieromonk Alexander Golitzin HERE)

 

• "The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian" (reviewed by Kevin P. Edgecomb)

 

• Panagiotes Chrestou, "Greek Orthodox Patrology" (reviewed by Phil Snider)

• Seraphim Rose, "Genesis, Creation and Early Man: The Orthodox Christian Vision" (reviewed by George and Elizabeth Theokritoff)

 

• “Orthodox Readings of Augustine” (Review by Orrologion)

 

• Vladimir Lossky, "The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church" (reviewed by Dr. Edward Moore)

HAGIOGRAPHY

• Archimandrite Joachim Spetsieris, “The Hermitess Photini” (reviewed by Sophocles)

 

• Dr. Constantine Cavarnos, Modern Orthodox Saints Series (reviewed by Kevin P. Edgecomb, with a listing of all the books in the series)

HISTORY

• Aristeides Papadakis and John Meyendorff, “The Christian East and the Rise of the Papacy” (Review by Orrologion)

OTHER

• the journal "Road to Emmaus" (reviewed by Kevin P. Edgecomb)

 

• A review of the ESV study Bible wherein is also a critique of Robert Letham misunderstandings of Orthodoxy (reviewed by Kevin P. Edgecomb) see also Letham's book HERE

 

• Sebastian Brock, "The Bible in the Syriac Tradition" (partial review by April DeConick)

 

• Mathewes-Green, Frederica, “First Fruits of Prayer: A Forty-Day Journey Through the Canon of St. Andrew” (reviewed by Mary C. Sheridan)

 

• John D. Zizioulas, “Being as Communion: Studies in the Personhood of the Church” (reviewed by Mar Melchizedek)

 

• Christos Yannaras, “Person and Eros” (reviewed by Dr. Edward Moore)

• Webber, Fr. Meletios, "Steps of Transformation: An Orthodox Priest Explores the Twelve Steps" (reviewed by Sophocles)
  

 

• Anonymous, “The Royal Cross of Our Lord Leading to Eternal Life” (a brief History from the Eastern Orthodox Librarian)

CHURCH HISTORY AND OTHER BOOKS

 

• Angelo di Berardino (ed.), Adrian Walford (tr.), “Patrology: The Eastern Fathers from the Council of Chalcedon (451) to John of Damascus (+750)” (reviewed by Dr. Edward Moore)

 

• Jaroslav Pelikan's "The Church and Her Doctrine - Medieval Catholicism" in his series entitled, "The Christian Tradition" (an anonymous review )

 

• Mark Husbands & Jeffrey P. Greenman, "Ancient Faith for the Church's Future" (reviewed by Phil Snider)

 

• Ramsey MacMullen, "Voting  about God at Early Church Councils"(reviewed by Prior Peter - he cites it as one of the best books of 2006; and a short review by Eric Sowell HERE)

 

• David Ivan Rankin, “From Clement to Origen: The Social and Historical Context of the Church Fathers” (reviewed by Edward Moore)

 

• “Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs” (Review by Mike Aquilina)

 

• John Boswell, "Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe" (reviewed by Patrick Viscuso, 1994)

 

• Victor E. Marsden, “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” (reviewed by Sophocles and HERE)

 

• Alexandros Papadiamandros, “The Boundless Garden” (reviewed by Ochlophobist)