Sergei P. Brun

We stand at a major threshold. For the first time in our history, most of the population has virtually unlimited access to education and culture. Innumerable sources of information and communication are now available. Never before has the great treasure trove of Christian art and thought been so accessible.

The Age of the Crusades is by far one of the most popular subjects in the Orthodox-Catholic dialogue (or rather, in the ongoing Orthodox-Catholic polemics), a time period which constantly arises in the field of historical as well as theological deliberation.

Just a few miles to the south of Peloponnesus, washed by waters of the Aegean Sea, lies the isle of Kythira, the southernmost of the Ionian islands. It doesn’t attract as many tourists as better known destinations, such as Corfu or Zakynthos; it is a quiet (thus a bit rugged) resort popular among the Greeks,[…..]

The cruel murder of George Floyd and the ensuing Black Lives Matter protests against police brutality and systemic racism have added fuel to ongoing culture wars, debates on social justice, and calls for a wide-ranging revision of the historic and cultural landscape. How does this wide-ranging social upheaval correlate to the history and contemporary self-understanding[…..]

One of the long-awaited releases in the field of religious and medieval studies is George E. Demacopoulos’ Colonizing Christianity: Greek and Latin Religious Identity in the Era of the Fourth Crusade. The book analyzes two major Latin and two major Byzantine texts from the thirteenth century as well as the Chronicle of Morea, a product[…..]