An emeritus professor of sociology and religious studies at the City University of New York–Baruch College.
Father Lev Gillet devoted his life to the ecumenical renewal of the Church, working alongside some of the most important Orthodox theologians and churchmen of the twentieth century: Father Sergii Bulgakov, Paul Evdokimov, Vladimir Lossky, Metropolitan Evlogy, Metropolitan Anthony Bloom, and Bishop Kallistos Ware. Yet even among these famous friends and colleagues, he stood out as a person of godliness of a special kind…
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The former archbishop of Wales and of Canterbury and professor and master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, Rowan Williams is a scholar of the first order. He’s written a great deal about what history teaches us about ourselves, God, and the Church…
Roberto J. De La Noval—a writer and professor of theology at Notre Dame University—is the translator and editor of this volume, a significant contribution to the abundant new scholarship and translation of Sergii Bulgakov’s work. Centering on Bulgakov’s writings about eschatology and the meaning of creation—and its counterpart, death— it includes many essays that are,[…..]
The importance of understanding the social, political, and economic context in which a biblical text was written and received in order to properly read and interpret it has been a central principle of biblical scholarship for some time now. This movement started with the well-known work of Wayne Meeks in the 1980s, followed by Bart[…..]
This new translation of Sergii Bulgakov’s The Tragedy of Philosophy is a most welcome edition to the continuing series of translations of Father Bulgakov’s books. Thanks to the enormous efforts of Boris Jakim but also Thomas A. Smith and now Stephen Churchyard, we are close to having most of Bulgakov available in English.
Looking East in Winter is a diverse and rich collection of essays from Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury and a professor at both Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Throughout his scholarly and pastoral work, Williams has often taken it upon himself to present lesser-known treasures of Eastern Christian thought to the West in an[…..]
Tom Holland’s recent work, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World, is a remarkable history of the Christian faith and Church and how it shaped the world. Much to his credit, Holland’s book stays true to its title. When he says the whole world, he really means all of it, including other faith traditions,[…..]
Originally published in 1959, Transfiguring Time, one of the early works of the French Orthodox theologian Olivier Clément, finally appears in Jeremy Ingpen’s lucid and lovely translation. Ingpen also provides a useful introduction, which helps the reader become acquainted both with the author’s person and with the style and outlook of his writings—a welcome addition,[…..]
With the granting of a tomos of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church ofUkraine (OCU) on January 6, 2019, by Patriarch Bartholomew I and the synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the pursuit of a century was finally attained: an authentic local church in Ukraine, truly self-determining and no longer a dependency of another church. Soon after,[…..]
